7 In the Copy Collections group click the Save Collection button to save
your collection. Name the collection Swim – Crawl. The CPY extension
is automatically added to the name.8 Save the scene as MySwimmer04.max.Animating a kicking leg was fairly easy, requiring only two poses: one with
the leg up, and one with the leg down. Animating the arms is more complex.
To animate the stroke of an arm, you’ll need five poses:
■ The arm outstretched
■ The arm down
■ The arm back
■ The arm drawn up out of the water near the ear
■ The arm entering the water
When one arm is animated correctly, you’ll use Copy Track and Paste Opposite
Track to animate the second arm. You’ll adjust the timing of the second arm
by sliding the keys in the track bar.
Animate one arm:
1 Make sure that Auto Key is still on, and move the time slider to
frame 0.2 Press H and select Bip01 L UpperArm from the Select From Scene dialog.3 In the Left viewport, select and rotate Bip01 L UpperArm
approximately −160 degrees about the Z axis, until it is extended in front
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