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Yes i'm taking a break from my big project.  I was inspired by my Facebook friends to make this little guy...

Honestly, who doesn't love those sheep that tip over!?!

So i'm in scene mod and i'm trying to get a certain bone to move in the Y axis.  It's added a controller for the X axis, but how do I get it to add a controller for the Y axis? or even the Z axis for that matter

Ok, now i'm having even more problems.  I made my blink sequence with the eyelids, it looks perfect in sequence mode, but look what happens in scene mode
http://tinypic.com/r/xd86sk/7
Yes, the bones are moving exactly how they're supposed to be, everything is working perfectly except the eyelid won't move with the bone in scene mode and I don't know why
I Just tried deleting the figure and putting it back, no luck.  where the eye is supposed to be completely closed, the half-circle is floating above the head.

Someone PLEASE help me out here?

I'm trying to skin my object using weights, but i'm having trouble with it.  I keep getting the message that says "the bone must be a descendent of the bone the object is attatched to" or something, and the only way i'll be able to do it is if I can attach the object to the root bone, but it won't let me do that either. can someone help me out?

As you might have heard me say, i'm going to start a new project.  this time it will be a movie based on a book I wrote.  it will take a very long time, but I'm going to make the movie in chapters and upload to Youtube individually.

The book is called The Mare of the Midnight Star (yes, i'm really into horses)  It's not the most amazing or original thing around, so i'm not going to brag and leave myself open to put-downs.  Anyway, the story is about a horse named Shadow Runner who loses her mother (who was the herd leader) in the beginning, forcing her to be the next leader.  She tries to get a guy-horse and fails, and she meets the bad guy who's a cougar named Marfóir.  then she meets another stallion who falls in love with her, blah, blah, blah.

The main plot i guess is that she doesn't know it, but she's actually born with a power.  She's one of six horses that are called "the horses of the six powers". so yeah, sort of fantasy that's probably been done before.  The story takes place in Ireland so there's lots of hills and cliffs and oceans and stuff.

Anyway, here's what i've started with, these are my reference pictures. it's actually an old Barbie horse with it's leg broken off... but it doesn't move, so it's good for refs!


A full head should be easier than a skull, am I right?

I noticed that for some reason I can only have a 1 character signature.  to have a full signature, is it based on rank, or account age?  I've risen to full member and it still won't work, what do I have to do?

I've been working on the sequences for my animation, but the animation for the running cycle was made too slow. Too much space between Key Frames pretty much. Is there any way I can move Key Frames around without having to redo my whole sequence? like, moving a Key Frame dot back a couple spaces?

As most of you know, i've been making an animated horse skeleton. I've finished making my walk cycle, but the back legs aren't cooperating.  The bones for the pelvis are at a slant, causing the back legs to curve inward, and in my last frames the back legs cross over each other. How do I fix this "joint problem"?