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P6 Intro to Animation.

You will need Poser 6 and, Optional, a Macromedia Flash Player (Free)
This tut will take you up to the creatiuon of a series of bitmaps, that can be
assembled as an animation in a Animation program or as a SWF (flash) file
we will use an existing walk designer file.

Prerequisets -
.... You know how to navigate library, load a character, set up a render and set document window size.
..... This is covered in in this tut here.

Lets get set up by loading a figure - setting the light, camerea and document window to 400x400

Lets load in a walk designer file - In this case it is 30 frames long.

Let's open up our Animation controls - You may like to play it to see what it looks like.

Lets have a look from a differnt angle. - You may like to play the animation
Normally when you move or change cameras you need to adjust the lighting. We won't for this tut.

Lets set up our render settings. Here is what I am using.

Set up our render dimensions
This doesn't appear to carry over into our movie settings.
So needs to be set up agin in our Movie settings.

Lets get set up to make our animation .

and
Image file sizes vary - This one is ~ 30KB/frame
Uncompresed AVI filkes are very large 10-30 MB second depending whats in the pic
Flash files are low quality however they are also very small - in this case 56KB

and - Rendering will take a few moments depending upon the scene complexity.

Here is output ready for importing into an animation program like "Animation Shop"
or as a flash file I did at the same time. (56KB)

Here is the Flash File - You my need the free Flash Player from here.

Exercise - Create a flash animation,
using a different character and camera position with an image size of 400x300

Thanks for looking and feedback is welcome, Richard.