{"id":2000,"date":"2025-09-04T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kankiprojects.com\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:50:02","slug":"robot-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kankiprojects.com\/es\/robot-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot animation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Animation work for the subject Media for Video Games. In my case I used Cascadeur and Blender software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desarrollo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first step when importing a model with a rig in Cascadeur is to assign the different skeletons to a humanoid scheme with the “Quick Rigging Tool”. If we had a standardized model, it would automatically detect it, but we are unlikely to meet those requirements with a hand-made model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cascadeur’s own YouTube guide<\/a> has been very useful to know the import processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here comes a funny moment, because I realize that in the previous activity I didn’t apply the scale of the objects in the model and when generating the rig everything goes out of order. So I had to iterate and change some values \u200b\u200bfrom the previous exercise so that everything would work correctly here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s time to cheer up. It takes a little getting used to the controls coming from Blender but the results are worth it. First we select the points we are going to handle in our skeleton and place them in the position we want to start. Automatically, they will be marked in blue (can be deactivated with Shift + Z).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, we move in the timeline to the next keypose we want to do and so progressively (keyframes can be moved using the central mouse button and duplicated while holding Shift).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, by selecting all of them we can create an interpolation assisted by AI that will give us the final result of the animation by pressing the corresponding button and selecting the type of animation curve (in my case bezier clamped).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IMPORTANT: <\/strong> during the export process I found that the latest versions of Cascadeur do not allow exporting in .FBX with the free plan. Therefore, if we want to work for free, we will have to download a previous version (in my case  v2023.2.1<\/strong> )<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The first animation I decided to do was walking. I especially recommend following the Cascadeur tutorial<\/a> dedicated to this topic to start getting used to the tools of this program. In addition, it gives some tips to generate a more natural loop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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