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Another tool available for animation is the aniMate plugin. aniMate takes a higher level approach to animation by providing blocks of premade animations that can be dropped into a specialized timeline. This timeline runs in parallel with the Studio timeline, but is dedicated to the handling of aniblocks, as the elements of aniMate are called.
Aniblocks apply a complex animation sequence to a character. For example, there are aniblocks that move a character form standing to sitting down. Other aniblocks provide running sequences, fighting moves, or runway walks.
Aniblocks can be placed one after the other on the timeline. They can be spliced, inverted, slowed down, and accelerated. The software comes with a few premade aniblocks and more can be bought at the DAZ store. Many aniblocks provide rather natural and convincing movements, and the software performs quite well.
The danger in using this kind of approach is that the movements of the figures can look canned. If we repeat the same...
