Removing Motions of Body Parts

iClone provides a lot of built-in motion templates for characters. However, sometimes you maybe need to make small adjustments to specific body parts from motion templates to generate a new custom motion. To do this, you may employ the Remove Motion feature to remove certain body part motions and add Motion Layer keys.

Removing Body Part Motions from a Motion Clip

  1. Apply any one motion template from the Animation tab >> Motion library to a character.
  2. Open Timeline (Shortcut: F3). Open the Motion track of the actor. You will see that the motion clip is stored inside the track.
  3. Right-click on the clip, select Remove Motion and pick the body part from which you wish to remove motions.
  4. You may repeat the same steps to remove motions from other body parts.
  5. Play back and the motion of the body part will be removed from the original motion clip.

    Left Arm motion removed.

    Right Arm motion removed.

Adding Motion Layer Keys to Produce New Motion

After motions of body parts are removed, you may then use the Edit Motion Layer panel to set new poses in body parts to generate new motions.

  1. Go to the Modify panel >> Animation tab, click the Edit Motion Layer button.
  2. Modify body parts where motions have been removed.
  3. Play back to review the newly generated motion.
ClosedNote:
  • If you only set motion layer keys, then you will get an offset motion instead of an absolute pose. Use Remove Motion on an existing motion clip before setting motion layer keys, and the body parts whose motions were removed will have an absolute pose.

Add motion layer key without using the Remove Motion feature.

Add motion layer key after using the Remove Motion feature.