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Animating the Biped with Freeform Animation

There are two types of animation that a biped can perform: Freeform animation

and Footstep animation. In this lesson, you'll use Freeform animation to make

Dr. X do a series of deep knee bends. Freeform animation does not use

footsteps. You manually set all the keys in a Freeform animation.

To get an idea of how your animation should turn out, view the preview

animation, drxkneebends.avi, in the folder \sceneassets\renderassets\.

Dr. X doing his deep knee bend

exercises.

Set up for this lesson:

1 Open the scene file cs4_qs_drx03.max.

This scene contains Dr. X with properly adjusted envelopes.

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