CompuServe Messages

What's up, Jim… Bones Pro is great if you have a complex model made of one piece and you want to animate it. Skin is like nurbes modelling, it uses the vertices as a guide to wrap the skin around. The model you make with skin can be cut to segments and you can animate each segment in the keyframer. Skin will create the 'skin' and conform it to the animated slices. It's great for things as simple as snakes and hoses to animating jaw structure, muscle bulges and facial construction. Skin, however, has some pretty bad flaws. It will only wrap around either the length of width of the object you create so you can't make, say, a sphere with it and then distort it. I haven't personally used Bones Pro but it sounds like something to get, especially with the smooth IPAS as well. I hope that helps you. Take it easy, Juan An animator…