Hi everyone!
Go check out our new Christmas message from Steve and Dave the dinosaurs!

http://www.4mations.tv/clip.aspx?key=958B2149A0136475

Animated entirely using Anime Studio, it covers egg nog , gold, meat and thinly veiled threats amongst other things. Merry Christmas!

Hey, we have a new little Christmas video out with more dinosaurs!

Watch it here:

http://www.4mations.tv/clip.aspx?key=958B2149A0136475

Cool! I hope all the forum animators start uploading stuff on 4mations! It's a really good idea for showcasing animation and they have monthly cash prices and other neat stuff. Of course I'm biased but I really hope it takes off!

Thanks! We hope to make more soon.
There's more on the dinosaur's website at http://www.wearedinosaurs.com

Hi everyone! My first 100% Anime Studio project is live, you can watch it here: http://www.4mations.tv/clip.aspx?key=C936029765F90190 It's a special commission for Channel 4's new animation site, 4mations, a new broadband channel which gives animators a chance to make and showcase animation! I strug...

Just wanted to follow up on the topic to show the results of the rigs I used... You can watch the clip here: http://www.4mations.tv/clip.aspx?key=C936029765F90190 The characters don't have a huge range of motion, but it was extremely easy, fast (and fun!) to animate, which suited the job perfectly. ...

Thanks slowtiger, that's very interesting. I would love to see a centralized resource that outlines archetypal ways of rigging, depending on the overall design and desired effect, with pros and cons for each. For the moment I have gone back to the meshinstance method, as I want to keep the control m...

I think I might have spoken too fast... Having the skeleton on the switch layer works very well for the body but it becomes a problem when I start to attach other elements that also require switch layers (like arms with different hand shapes for instance).
Is there any other way to get around this?

Ah, fantastic!
This will work well and is indeed much simpler.
Many thanks to both of you for your help!

Thanks synthsin, I'll try it. I'm not too bothered about Papagayo as I find manual lipsync gives better results, and I can always edit the dat file to add the .dup extension in a pinch. I'm not sure I understand your suggestion about putting the skeleton in the switch layer. Would I not need a skele...

I'm quite keen to get a seamless, stretchy line from body to head and found detaching the head did not achieve the desired effect. I realize that bone binding does not normally work within switch layers but it was my understanding that the method described above in this thread provided a workaround ...

Hi, I've read through this thread with much interest as I think this is the technique I need to use for a character I'm trying to rig. I've built a character whose whole body (from head to toes) has to be one shape and used point binding to a controlling bone layer to make it move as I want to. The ...