How to do your First Animation

Index to all 30 lessons in this Milkshape tutorial The Process of animating a model is not hard to understand and you will grasp the concepts quickly. You already have most of the skills needed to do it as far as selecting and moving parts of your model. Now you just need a few more bits of information to put it all together. That's what we are going to cover now.

Here is what we are going to do in this section (5)

This is the model we will animate. The basic framework for the animation comes with Milkshape so that is easy. We will focus on getting it to move. Here is a video of it in action. It is a 3.66 Meg avi file Waving Arms Animation

If you are having trouble with this animation you can also see it on Youtube Here

Okay, Lets do it!

 

 

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