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The Complete Guide to DAZ Studio 4

You're reading from   The Complete Guide to DAZ Studio 4 Bring your 3D characters to life with DAZ Studio

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849694087
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paolo Ciccone Paolo Ciccone
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Preface 1. Quick Start – Our First 3D Scene FREE CHAPTER 2. Customizing Studio 3. Posing Figures 4. Creating New Characters with Morphs 5. Rendering 6. Finding and Installing New Content 7. Navigating the Studio Environment 8. Building a Full Scene 9. Lighting 10. Hyper-realism – the Reality Plugin 11. Creating Content 12. Animation A. Installing DAZ Studio Index

A simple animation test

Let's see how the principle of keyframing works with a simple exercise. Start with a new scene. The idea for this exercise is to change a figure from the standard T pose to a more natural one. So, let's add Dawn to our scene. You can use any other figure if you like. Make sure that the timeline cursor is at frame 0 and that the animation is set for 24 fps.

Activate the Universal tool, go to frame 15, grab the left arm by the forearm, and drag it down until it is alongside the body. Repeat the operation for the other arm. This is the position that we should have:

A simple animation test

Now drag the timeline cursor back to frame 0, you should see the animation playing back. Studio has created the frames in between frame 0 and 15 automatically, moving all the body parts in the right way to create the transition from T pose to the pose that we have created at frame 15. While we have simply dragged a limb, several other body parts have been affected by the movement, and the parameters...

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