Offsetting a Portion of an Animation
If there is a section of your animation that you want to reposition such as the head's height or the puppet's position, you can do it using the function curve.
How to reposition a portion of an animation
1. | In the Timeline view, click the Expand Function button of the body part layer to reposition. If you want to reposition the entire body, expand the master peg's parameters. |
2. | Double-click on the layer's parameter controlling the keyframes you want to reposition. |
The Function Editor opens.
3. | In the Function editor, select the keyframes you want to reposition by tracing a selection box. |
4. | Enable the Show Current Frame option view the transformation results in the Camera view as you do them. |
5. | Drag the keyframe selection up or down to reposition your sequence. |
6. | Close the Function editor. |