I’ve tried all of the above but have always come back to the trusty old splined. I feel I can control the most with spline and get some little finessing with it as well. Plus, I’m old and don’t like to change too much.
Kidding aside, I do also use plateau for some eases. Not too much because I look at the camera the most and not the graph editor. When I work, I stay in stepped as long as possible. I add a ton of keys through the process and am not as skilled at massaging the curves. When I do look at the GE, as all the hip animators call it, it’s during the polish phase. I do so only when there is something wonky in the camera. If there is a weird hitch or an arc isn’t as smooth as it should be. I’ll go through the keys and occasionally try a different tangent. Linear works on holds and plateau for some slow eases.
So the short answer is: Splined.
Guest Blogger Mike Gasaway
3 comments:
I often uses steeped tangent about 75% of my shot so I convert all the curves to spline and with a wonderful script that I have I flatten all the peaks between equal key, also this result you can achieve with plateau tangent, but it's not the exact result...
thanks for the great post!
j.
what is this tangent flattening script that you speak of?
thx!
-eo
I work just like Jerzy, I use stepped tangents in blocking and I change to spline in polish. To correct peaks, flatten tangents.
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