Can anyone give me good tips of animation

Hi there fellas. My name is Karel and i found this wonderful forum from tysons home page.

First of all exuse my english..... I can understand anything in english but my grammar is bad


I am doing animation for my school. It is my end semester project. But i am afraid that my project is too ambitious. Basicly i try to remake tysons animation where robot attacs a car. I really liked it and got inspired and i want to try to make something similar. I have car and yesterday i almost finished modeling the robot. Now its the hard part. The animation. I dont know anything about animation. Today i started with some tutorials about animations. I used IK solver to make legs run. The leggs errr... the movment needs some work but i know i can work it out. But my problem is. My robot must run on two legs about 500 frames. And of course there is no point to make 500 frames of legs movment. Instead i found that graph editor-----> track view ------> controller ------> out of range types
there are several options there. I chose relative repeat so he would continue to run. But the probel is after some frames my robots legs will start to go real funny. Jumping in the air and stuff. Soon i realized that every time my movement is repeating its getting off form some parameters. Its like i move object z axis 2 and when it repeats itself it moves off 2,5 and so on. And more movments are causing more difficulties. So i have to move the robot position EXACTLY the same position as he was on frame 1. Then the relative offmovment is minimal. But the problem is its really hard to move the robot to exact original position.

I hope u understand what i am sayng. Basicly i just want to make few frames of movment cucles and make it self to repeat 500 frames. And i want tips wich is the most easiest way to do it.....


Thank u for ur time..

i am using max. What do u mean bu AFAIK?

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