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- [Instructor] This is the final video

of this climbing animation.

It is now time to polish our tail motion,

so I will start with the root of the tail.

There are a couple things you have to think of.

First of all, our character is climbing vertically.

It's the tail has weight,

it should be hanging a bit downward.

Plus, since our character has a vertical momentum.

The tail should also drag in the opposite direction.

As usual, I'm starting to work on the X rotation curve.

The idea is to avoid any big flapping motion

because of the twin formation we have seen before.

The root of the tail is moving in reaction

of the hips motion.

As the hips are raising from frame zero to

frame five to tail is going the opposite direction

with one frame of delay.

From there I just need to polish the curve,

make sure that the frame 10 and zero on the same

and that I get a smooth transition

between frame eight to frame 10.

This nice change in the curve shape

from frame one to frame three,

supports the drastic change in the hips pose

while the character is pushing.

From there I will work on the next joint

in reaction from the first joint.

So you can see that my curve is pretty noisy

because I've tried to make this animation

during the blocking stage.

So don't be afraid to destroy everything

and reshape the motion.

In the end the curve of the second joint

will look like the curve of the first joint.

But with a bit of delay maybe one frame

and a smoother shape.

Cause the further we get from the roots of the tail,

the more absorption of the heaps motion we will add.

Since we are rebuilding the whole tail motion,

I can get treated off any of the next joint motion

because they are currently disturbing.

I can get treated of the intermediate key frame

for the two controllers or the tip of the tail.

So that it stays straight

and I have less difficulties

reading the motion of the tail.

As soon as I get a satisfying motion,

I make sure that the cycle is transitioning properly

and I can jump on the next joint.

Can now rework the motion of the next joint

by simply duplicating the first key frame

and reshaping the curve at will

based on the motion of the previous joint.

It's pretty straightforward.

The idea is to create a slight waviness in the tail motion.

So if you want to create a nice tail motion

for this animation,

make sure that the root of the tail is moving properly.

And then you just create this animation fall off

along the way.

From there we can start working on this Z axis

for the left to right motion of the tail.

It's the same process as for the previous motion

but we'll keep it a little more subtle this time.

Since I'm rebuilding this motion,

I will get rid of all the existing key frames

and will start by duplicating the first key

Based on the hips motion of the character

I will create the follow-through

when the hips are going right

I will decide to rotate the tail to the left

to create the dragging motion of follow through.

Usually I make sure that frame zero and frame 10

are the same and that they are align

are transitioning smoothly with the next key frames.

I will then repeat the process on the other joints.

As usual, you can see the full process

in the time-lapse video.

So the finer parts of this animation is

to work on all the secondary details

like the ears, eyes and nose tip.

I will use the straightforward method

meaning that I will be animating along the way.

With both ears controllers selected,

I will get rid all the key frames

between frame zero and frame 10

Two thing we have to think of.

The first one is to avoid twinning.

That's why I pulled the bit back the right ear

from the side view,

so that when we read the silhouette our character.

We can see both ears.

And the second thing is to keep the ears a little back

since our character is coming verticality

the ears of a bit of weight.

So they are pointing downward

and the momentum make them also drag a bit backwards.

So when you enter the follow-through path

whenever the car car is contacting

with the ground and the ears are moving forward.

Don't push them too far forward.

On some with those base poses,

I can slightly polish the curve.

Don't forget that you are working on the cycle.

So you need the curve to transition properly

from one cycle to the other.

This is why I was missing the keys.

I will also offset the motion of the ears by one key frame

by duplicating the first key frame onto frame one.

And then I rework my transition,

rotate my keys, duplicate them.

So that frame zero one frame 10 are the same.

Do the same on the Z rotation and Y rotation

even if the interference is very subtle.

I want to avoid any glitches in the motion.

We need smooth transition from one cycle to the other.

Then I worked on the eyes.

The idea is not to create an eye blink

as explained before.

You should not make your characters blink

during a cycle, because it will look super repetitive.

It is to add subtle follow through animation

by slightly closing the eyes while the head is going up.

Here I don't care about twinning since both eye I

will barely be seen at the same time.

So I can work on both curve at the same time.

To tackle the nose motion as I did for the ears.

Animating with with the straightforward method.

Making it drag based on the head motion, then make sure

that the curve transition properly during the cycle.

And this is the final touch

to this climbing cycle animation.

To make sure that our cycle is properly made.

I will display all the controllers curve

with the show hidden filter enabled.

Don't forget to press Alt+H

on top of this to make sure that you unhide every curves.

Then I make sure that the root channels are disabled

because they are not using a cycle modifier,

but linear extrapolation.

Then they will select all the keys on frame zero,

press V and switch the Handle Type to free.

As explained before with this Handle Type

the current key frames are no longer influenced

by the next or previous key frame.

So from there I can duplicate them and move them on Frame 10

and I'm sure that the handle orientation won't be changed.

This is a guarantee that your animation

will cycle perfectly.

This is the last animation we have to create

of this character.

Congratulation if you got so far,

if not don't give up and rework your animation.

The next video will be a time-lapse

of what we have just seen.

And then I will show you all we can combine

all the action we have created with our character

into the NLA editor.