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Course Outline





In this tutorial we take a close look at many of the new animation set-up

and rigging tools in modo 401. These tools allow us to rig and animate

mechanically-based objects using constraints, inverse kinematics and

dynamic parenting.



This project explains how to rig a rotary engine. The rotary engine was

a crazy and yet beautiful piece of engineering that powered aircraft in

the early years of aviation. Most famously known for powering fighter

aircraft in WWI, they spun with the propeller at tremendous speed thus

expelling oil in the face of the pilot and making the aircraft difficult

to handle due to the gyroscopic effect of the engine spinning. The unusual

way the engine worked led to a unique design which we look at in detail in

this project via a cutaway model that reveals how all the elements of the

engine moved and interacted with each other.



The focus of the tutorial is automation. When finished the entire engine

rig can be driven by a single keyframed channel. This is an ideal tutorial

for anyone who wants to dig into what has now evolved into very capable

animation system within modo.



The videos are narrated in English and are most appropriate for people

with some modo experience.



This tutorial was developed for modo 401. modo 501 users may find the

tutorial useful, but will have to adapt some instructions to new

techniques found in Modo 501.