How to make an animation look runny

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How to make an animation look runny

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Hi,

i'm working on a 1st person animation for pistols. But for some reason it always looks snatchy.
Has someone an idea how to make it look runny??
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Re: How to make an animation look runny

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Usually, I take a middle frame and move it down a bit. Then I move it slightly to the left too. Or, whenever I make the humanfp_tool/rifle_run pose, I turn the hands in, so he holds the gun towards the camera. To get a feel that the weapon is heavy, and needs to be held close to the chest when running.
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mh that's what i made, too.

You may want to have a look at my animation. Maybe it's just me who thinks it's snatchy.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h0ybn8cttxj3t6i/MUNGED.rar

it's only the pistol idle animation
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Strap a GoPro camera to your head and run around the yard with a water pistol then transfer the recorded motions to your first person rig by rotoscoping the footage. :razz:
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AceMastermind wrote:Strap a GoPro camera to your head and run around the yard with a water pistol then transfer the recorded motions to your first person rig by rotoscoping the footage. :razz:
Lol, that's actually an excellent idea. :o
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:D Nice idea Ace!
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Re: How to make an animation look runny

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:funny2: ok i know silly questions get silly answers.

Just for the reson someone else has the same question. I wanted to add the sidearm to the 1st person animation. I use XSI with the great ZETool. So i first imported the idle animation. And than i made a new idle. Now that's finished. But i don't wanted to make all animations new, so i imported the shoot animation next. And than ebfore modeling it i imported the new idle, but chekct apply animation to selected hierachy. And than i just had to move the left arm, and had the right arm moving as base. So you needn't make a whole new animation :D
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