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My new FK-rig is behaving weird when animated.

It's primarily the arms that behave weirdly. This is the starting pose: Starting pose

And this is the end pose: End pose

So far so good, but the animation between the poses moves weirdly:

Weird animation

Why is it doing this, and how can I fix it? I've only keyframed and have a Bézier Interpolation. The desired movement is a straight line, from pose to pose.

It seems to only apply for the left arm. The right arm seems to be working fine.

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It is playing the animation that you created. I would guess that you expected it to interpret the movement you recorded a little differently though.

It would appear you want the arm to raise and then rotate a little to wave the hand. the problem is you keyframed the rotation with the arm pointing downwards, then you moved it up and rotated it and keyframed, blender then gradually rotates from the lower position to the upper position, the "waving" rotation is then merged into the lifting the arm movement.

To fix this you need more keyframes. You want a keyframe of the arm pointing down, then a keyframe of the arm pointing up, then add keyframes for the rotations to make the wave.

If you want the arm to start rotating as it is raised then you will need a few more keyframes to define the arm raising so that it is in the right position as it raises.

Below is the f-curves for your animation. The red curve is the x-rotation for the arm going down and raising up. The green curve is for the y-rotation and the blue is the z-rotation intended for the arm rotating to give a wave, you can see that the y and z curve begin rotating as the arm raises upwards. You only want the y and z to start rotating around the time the x rotation is in it's highest position.

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  • $\begingroup$ I thought he was just going for a shoulder rotation like a stiff salute. $\endgroup$ – StarWeaver Dec 20 '14 at 9:46
  • $\begingroup$ StarWeaver is right. I wanted a a stiff, linear movement from one pose to the next. $\endgroup$ – Einar Dec 20 '14 at 14:36
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I talked with the rigger and apparently it was the rotation order. It was set to XYZ Euler. Setting it to Quaternion (WXYZ) solved the problem.

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