Thought I make a new thread for these action.

It looks like you've go the cycle thing worked out, I'm just detecting the tiniest little hitch.

The overlapping motion is working pretty well.

I'd say less torso movement, and arms that are reaching higher and a bit straighter, especially on the one-handed wave. remember to raise the shoulder to help him reach.

the guy reaching one hand up will tilt his torso to get the one shoulder higher, and so his toso motion wont' be equal on each side, he'll have a slight sideways lean away fromteh side with the arm that is up.

thanks, Mark!

Two handed wave with shoulders added and torso reduced just say theh word and I work on fingers doing a little to give this a bit more affect

I'm thinking it's still too big, but try a test crowd of about 6 winkies with all of them out of synch and let's see what that looks like.

Maybe if I slow it down a little instead of toning it down?

If I scrub thru that about 1/4 speed it starts to work.

On these crowd actions, we need to figure out a way so that their eyes are never aimed straight out of their head. That will help decrease the zombie look.

Ok it's a 19 frame action so this is a 80 frame action I will post smaller one later on tonight ignore were left hand motion for now just testing speed.

Same action at 40 frames

The slower speeds seem better.

Are the hips and torso motion almost exactly opposite each other? It looks that way and that may be what is giving it a wiggle look. The torso should be behind the hips but not so far that it is always moving opposite.

Can you make me a short video about how I control the winkies eyes? I can not find out I can get them going up down put not left to right?

I was able to move them with the regular EyeAimer bone. Is that not working for you?

Got it working thanks

I looked at hip and torso rotation and it does not look opposite to me but I had maybe too much hip translation back and forth so I reduced that and played around trying to polish a little bit more. Thought I post what I have beore I head out for the weekend.

Winkie one hand wave cycle is 2 sec 48 frames

Winkie 2 handed cycle 1:15 39 frames long

looking around

Looking good Mark.
Perhaps the middle one has abit of a jitter. I'd suggest making the looking action longer so it's less obvious it's a canned action.

The next one I trying a 4 sec cycle as an experiment. I going to go back and see if I can fix some of the jitters maybe as I do more I learn how get those totally out?

One way (I learned off Robert) is to select the start and end keyframes of all the bones in the action. Then set them to....eh....not sure of the name, but press the zero key (not in the numpad).

Ok these need some work but I have them all started I think I polish these more and add some small facial stuff.

I think bachelor #2 is enjoying the parade too much.

We'll Skype on this one also.

bachelor #2 is still giving me a hard time but what do you think of these?