Is there a way to make animations that apear to be breathing. or is it not possible at this time

[animorf Kawadias]

I have recently started making animations, but i am at the moment unaware of anyway to make an animation that would apear to be breathing. I am using QAvinator, which seams to be a good program but seams to be limited as well with what it can do. I would like to know if its possible to make an animation that breaths, and if so if i need a better program then QAvinator to make an animation that breaths.

[Luc Starsider]

It is possible to make these. In fact, there are already some to be bought in world. Go to Vista and check out what they have for sale. Not all, but some of them are breathing effect animations.

QAvimator should be up to the task, but I don't know the program, so I'm not sure about this.

- Luc -

[Dora Gustafson]

It is not hard to make a breathing animation and QAvimator is good for it.

All you have is the spine to operate on
At the bottom of the breath it is more bend than it is at the top of the breath
What you need is a bottom breath pose and a top breath pose

1. Start with the bottom breath pose
2. 1.5 seconds later you have the top breath pose
3. 2.5 seconds after that you repeat the bottom breath pose

When you cycle this animation the avatar will breath

Note 1: the durations are estimates

Note 2: the animation can be refined with more steps and by keeping the bottom breath pose for a short while