If like me, you suck at animating in Acid Bubbles amazing Timeline plugin I just stumbled across another way of doing things that make my very robotic animations come to life a little bit more by adding a bit of randomness through speed variation.
My scenes start off well but start to get very confusing with all the keyframes and targets added to an animation. spent countless hours working on something only to scrap it.
I dont know if anyone else does this so thought i would post it. I use waaaay less keyframes now and productivity is getting better.
what I do is add my male and female then add Timeline to each. I add a small sphere and disable physics and collision and add another Timeline plugin to the sphere.
as an example I'll do a handjob animation.
I'll pose the models how I want and "Overwrite Pose/use current pose" in timeline to save it. on the female atoms Timeline I add the head control as a target and set the animation length to 30 seconds. For the male I usually only have the arousal slider from Vamtacos Autocock plugin as a target in Timeline. Also Acids improvedpov as im sick of looking at him.
head over to the sphere. Btw i added the Timeline plugin to the sphere so i can move it around the scene for quick access to the timeline plugin. you can add it to an empty or scene plugin.
In the sphere, add left or right or both hand controller of the female as a target and leave the animation length at 2 seconds. go to the 1 second mark in the scrubber, select your hand and move it up a bit to add a keyframe.
Great she's whacking you off but its still robotic.
Next I add Everlasters FloatParamRandomizerEE plugin to the sphere as well. I name this "HJ" in the plugin screen because ill have one for each "Act" and enable/disable accordingly.
In the float param plugin set the atom to the Sphere, select the timeline plugin as the receiver and "Speed" as the target, enable randomness and set the lower and upper value to something i like 1s,3s for example.
looking a bit better now, she varies the speed of her handjob but there's not much else going on.
head back to the female atom and in to Timeline I animate the head every 1 second just kinda randomly picking which way to rotate the head around looking up, down, tilting etc. it's infinitely easier and faster than doing a heavily loaded scrubber with too much going on. even better add the chest and animate that slightly too.
That's pretty much it. just created a very easy animation that looks pretty convincing and non robotic and with very very little effort and for a bit extra movement you can setup atoms joints like in apetitevisual's biorigs. works really well for some poses making other joints move.
I ended up down this route after trying cyclforces and the idea of rotating it to change the movement but it wasnt reliable, then i had the idea of using an animation pattern and adding the float randomizer plugin to deal with its speed but got frustrated with that.
using layers in Timeline sprung to mind for just the hj part but either I couldn't figure out how to make the layer speed varied Timeline doesnt work like that. Then eurika, add another timeline plugin and that was it....my new preferred way to animate. I blasted through a really good rough sketch of my scene(hj,tittyjob,bj,female solo masturbation,sex scene,another sex scene and a big old cumshot) good enough for a hand shandy in like 2 days.
hope this helps someone or gives people ideas. Maybe there is a better way to do this but it works and i'm pretty pleased with the results.
My scenes start off well but start to get very confusing with all the keyframes and targets added to an animation. spent countless hours working on something only to scrap it.
I dont know if anyone else does this so thought i would post it. I use waaaay less keyframes now and productivity is getting better.
what I do is add my male and female then add Timeline to each. I add a small sphere and disable physics and collision and add another Timeline plugin to the sphere.
as an example I'll do a handjob animation.
I'll pose the models how I want and "Overwrite Pose/use current pose" in timeline to save it. on the female atoms Timeline I add the head control as a target and set the animation length to 30 seconds. For the male I usually only have the arousal slider from Vamtacos Autocock plugin as a target in Timeline. Also Acids improvedpov as im sick of looking at him.
head over to the sphere. Btw i added the Timeline plugin to the sphere so i can move it around the scene for quick access to the timeline plugin. you can add it to an empty or scene plugin.
In the sphere, add left or right or both hand controller of the female as a target and leave the animation length at 2 seconds. go to the 1 second mark in the scrubber, select your hand and move it up a bit to add a keyframe.
Great she's whacking you off but its still robotic.
Next I add Everlasters FloatParamRandomizerEE plugin to the sphere as well. I name this "HJ" in the plugin screen because ill have one for each "Act" and enable/disable accordingly.
In the float param plugin set the atom to the Sphere, select the timeline plugin as the receiver and "Speed" as the target, enable randomness and set the lower and upper value to something i like 1s,3s for example.
looking a bit better now, she varies the speed of her handjob but there's not much else going on.
head back to the female atom and in to Timeline I animate the head every 1 second just kinda randomly picking which way to rotate the head around looking up, down, tilting etc. it's infinitely easier and faster than doing a heavily loaded scrubber with too much going on. even better add the chest and animate that slightly too.
That's pretty much it. just created a very easy animation that looks pretty convincing and non robotic and with very very little effort and for a bit extra movement you can setup atoms joints like in apetitevisual's biorigs. works really well for some poses making other joints move.
I ended up down this route after trying cyclforces and the idea of rotating it to change the movement but it wasnt reliable, then i had the idea of using an animation pattern and adding the float randomizer plugin to deal with its speed but got frustrated with that.
using layers in Timeline sprung to mind for just the hj part but either I couldn't figure out how to make the layer speed varied Timeline doesnt work like that. Then eurika, add another timeline plugin and that was it....my new preferred way to animate. I blasted through a really good rough sketch of my scene(hj,tittyjob,bj,female solo masturbation,sex scene,another sex scene and a big old cumshot) good enough for a hand shandy in like 2 days.
hope this helps someone or gives people ideas. Maybe there is a better way to do this but it works and i'm pretty pleased with the results.
