Puppeteer

Puppeteer is an effective open system for creating animation and developing new poses without having to go through a lot of individual posing. It is especially effective if you want to use predefined poses for your art and have your character move between them. Puppeteer is one of the tabs in the Windows menu. See Figure 7.15.

There are three modes in Puppeteer: Edit, Preview, and Record. Figure 7.16 shows the Puppeteer tool next to the Genesis model. The three modes are shown in the top of the tool. Below them is a grid. This is where you will set up your pose points, or key frames as they are called in animation.

Puppeteer is an animation blending system that blends between two or more poses. In Edit mode, you set up your poses. In Preview mode, you can see how the poses blend. In Record mode, you can make a movie.