Annoying problem

# 1 26-03-2005 , 06:36 PM

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Ive been doing a tutorial on animating a seal bounce a ball on his head and have been doing relatively ok untill now. Im stuck on the stupidist thing. I have my seal built and have just added IK handles to the flippers and an IK spline. All i want to do is key it so they flippers stay stationary on the ground when i move the spline - but it doesnt seem to matter what i do because they just follow the rest of the skeleton.
I know this is such a silly random problem but it is driving me insane. Please help me if you can

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# 2 27-03-2005 , 12:03 AM

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i've never animated anything before but i watched the tutorials..

did u parent them right? the joint on body to flipper should be parent and tip of flipper should be child.. then moving child should not move the body-flipper joint.

If that is what you did, but it moves any ways. do not key the Y axis movement of the body-flipper joint.

sorry if that doesn't work too. Im just focusing on head modeling so i haven't gotten chance to animate anythign yet.

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# 3 27-03-2005 , 12:43 AM

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Re: Annoying problem

Originally posted by ginga_boy85
Hey guys and gals, i am very new to maya but this site does help alot
Ive been doing a tutorial on animating a seal bounce a ball on his head and have been doing relatively ok untill now. Im stuck on the stupidist thing. I have my seal built and have just added IK handles to the flippers and an IK spline. All i want to do is key it so they flippers stay stationary on the ground when i move the spline - but it doesnt seem to matter what i do because they just follow the rest of the skeleton.
I know this is such a silly random problem but it is driving me insane. Please help me if you can

Thank you

Ps. pleased to meet you all

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once you set a key on the ik handles they will stay planted to the ground.

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# 4 27-03-2005 , 06:49 PM

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this the last tutorial from the foundation book learning maya? by any chance? if it is i remember that- it nearly drove me insane!

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# 5 28-03-2005 , 11:37 PM

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It is from a PDF i downloaded called Learning Maya yes. I really dont know what to do. thank you for your advise guys but its still not working user added image

im gunna flip soon cos i cant really finish it without doing this bit. I am doing everything right i swear.

This is what happens when i try to keep the flippers stationary......

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