From the course: Advanced Mechanics in CG Animation

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Animate the twist

Animate the twist

From the course: Advanced Mechanics in CG Animation

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Animate the twist

- [Instructor] Now I've gone ahead and broken down the rest of this video in different sketches to identify a lot of the key moments. And there's one the that I really want to concentrate on next. It's the grab, and then twist. Now a grab and twist are really difficult to do in animation since two characters are going to be touching each other, and then this character's going to be doing a full 180 twist into them. Let's look at how to do it inside of Blender. Now one thing you want to do before you begin, is to make sure you have the grab moment keyed out on both characters, regardless of what software you're using Another thing you're going to want to do, is add a parent constraint, or inside of Blender we call them child of constraints. In this case I'm going to click on her hand, go to bone constraints, and add a child of constraint, scroll all the way down, and make the target Hilary001_proxy and we're going to want to target the opposite hand of Hilary, in this case her left…

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