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Create replacement animation

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Create replacement animation

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- [George] Hi, I'm George Maystree and today we're going to take a look at replacement animation. I'm going to show you how to tie multiple objects to a slider and use them in a stop motion or replacement animation scenario. So here we have the final example of what we're going to do. So we have this robot here, and I have the slider. And I'm just going to go ahead and move that slider, and as you can see it steps through a number of different mouths with different geometry. Now this is a lot different than doing something like blend shapes, and actually what we're doing is just swapping out objects. So let's take a look at how this works. I'm going to start off with our file here, which is called replacement animation zero one. And here I have all the parts that we need, I have this object here which is our slider, and then I have a number of different mouth shapes. Now I'm going to do just five mouth shapes but you can expand this technique to do as many as you want. Now how we do…

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