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Animating Multi-legged Characters

This tutorial has two parts. In the first, you’ll use a biped to animate a

quadruped (four-legged creature). In the second, you add extra bones to

animate a pair of wings on an imaginary four-legged creature.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

■ Animate a walk cycle for a typical quadruped such as a dog.

■ Use the ForeFeet toggle for a biped.

■ Use Bones to create extra limbs.

Skill level: Intermediate to Advanced

Time to complete: 2.5 to 3 hours

Animating a Quadruped Walk

In these lessons, you'll animate a four-legged character, a dog, to walk in a

continuous way. You’ll use the ForeFeet option to make the fingers of the

biped hands behave like toes on forefeet.

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