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[kv]

Holding hands while walking - as long as you make the walking animations as well as the holding hands ones, then it should work.
If, however, you hope to use the normal Moviestorm walks, then you are unlikly to have any success.

I thought as much, worht the thought though.

If you wanted to make an over the top type killing animation, say for a b-movie type horro thing, what about where the killer plunges his hand into the victims chest and pulls out the heart?

Or, the killer goes to shake hands and while the two hands are connected, the killers other hand shoves a knife into the victim. Super duper horro/slasher film stuff there.

I like those cheesey ideas, as yet though I have not worked out how to do interactive props so using the knife or pulling out a heart will have to wait.

[corthew]

I have got to see if I can get holding hands to work first

I really want you to achieve that.

If you can just get them to hold hands while standing side by side that would be awesome as well.

Possibly a head on a shoulder.
A peck on a cheek.

Little things mean alot.

[mng]

I agree with Corthew. Just a standing holding hands will get a lot of mileage. For instance you can start with a close up shot of the hands coming together. Then you can have the right camera shot from distance and with close placement of the actors walking synchronizing to make it seem like they are holding hands while walking. Another one that will get this to appear in a lot of movies is the arm over the shoulder, the head on the shoulder. Again these can just be standing or sitting animations because they say a lot by that one posture and can be used in so many contexts for different movies.

These are for the more advanced and ambitious
I don't know if others have suggested but I would love to see 1) slap on the face 2) pulling of the arm 3) martial arts open fist strike and defense 4) martial arts kicks (combined with blown away and jumps should be the final ingredient necessary to do some awesome martial arts films. And the ultimate is the 5) John Woo films of holding two crossing guns and firing simultaneously. Yep, that with a trench coat and sunglasses would look cool.

I really want you to achieve that.

If you can just get them to hold hands while standing side by side that would be awesome as well.

Possibly a head on a shoulder.
A peck on a cheek.

Little things mean alot.

[boxrocks]

Well there are already the interactive fighting animations, what if we go like seriously trigger happy with this? Such as Kung Fu moves and all these extreme fist fights you see in movies like the "Karate Kid" and "The Last Airbender" and make those interactive fighting sequences?

[kv]

Getting puppets to hold hands shouldn`t be difficult, not sure if it would be an issue yet but when the puppets breath I reckon it may cause puppets hands to move a little and maybe not in synch, we`ll see though.

Well there are already the interactive fighting animations, what if we go like seriously trigger happy with this? Such as Kung Fu moves and all these extreme fist fights you see in movies like the "Karate Kid" and "The Last Airbender" and make those interactive fighting sequences?

I want to do some fighting moves, that kind of thing though is going to take quite a while to do as I need to study fighting moves, try to recreate an animation of it, work out how they would chain together and then get it into moviestorm with a menu structure that would make sense. We`ll see what happens in the future, for now though we do have the Sword fighting to look forward to from Moviestorm.

[PapaG]

what about my Idea with the secret hand shakes and all? is it that bad an idea that no one has any thing to say about it?

[boxrocks]

what about my Idea with the secret hand shakes and all? is it that bad an idea that no one has any thing to say about it?

I can already do a holding hand look, it involves the point animation and tricky camera angles

[kv]

Aaaaaaaaaaarggggggghhh, this is quite frustrating!

I have been tweaking the strangle animation and I made the victims death position look better, however for some reason it has thrown the animation synch out, no idea why! I may just have to do this one right from scratch again if it does not start behaving

@ PapaG, I could see that kind of thing being used in gangster type movies, or in high school shenanigen movies, but it`s not currently something I am aiming for.

[PapaG]

Aaaaaaaaaaarggggggghhh, this is quite frustrating!

I have been tweaking the strangle animation and I made the victims death position look better, however for some reason it has thrown the animation synch out, no idea why! I may just have to do this one right from scratch again if it does not start behaving

If you have to start from scratch again that would suck! but in my experience it some times easier to start from scratch, even though it some times takes longer! None the Less I feel for you! cause I know the frustration!

@ PapaG, I could see that kind of thing being used in gangster type movies, or in high school shenanigen movies, but it`s not currently something I am aiming for.

Ok thats ok. I just thought it was a good Idea, and I wanted some one's opinion, so thanks for responding.

[boxrocks]

Any release yet? I need this for a specific scene, or I'll have to improv.

[kv]

No specific ETA as yet, this kind of animation takes a fair amount of work since it is being done manually and not using motion capture, also I have had some side projects to tackle from requests so it has heald me off a little from doing this.

The animation due to the problems I have had will be made from scratch again, hopefully it will go smoother.

[writerly]

The animation due to the problems I have had will be made from scratch again, hopefully it will go smoother.

Happens to me all the time. Drives me nuts, but invariably the 'from scratch' version is orders of magnitude better than the first iteration.
Regards,
C

[boxrocks]

No specific ETA as yet, this kind of animation takes a fair amount of work since it is being done manually and not using motion capture, also I have had some side projects to tackle from requests so it has heald me off a little from doing this.

The animation due to the problems I have had will be made from scratch again, hopefully it will go smoother.

Yeah there are so many uses I can perform with this.

[kv]

Ok I am building this animation from the ground up again, I may release the first attempt as the new one looks different as this time I have the killer put his hand over the victims mouth and nose to suffocate him aswell as strangle him.

The original one could still be used but anyone filming with it may not want to focus much on the dead body on the ground because it does look a little odd close up.

[boxrocks]

Ok I am building this animation from the ground up again, I may release the first attempt as the new one looks different as this time I have the killer put his hand over the victims mouth and nose to suffocate him aswell as strangle him.

The original one could still be used but anyone filming with it may not want to focus much on the dead body on the ground because it does look a little odd close up.

Sounds good. Waiting to see an experimental movie.

[ojiell]

Is this strangle break neck mod still available?