Swaying Animal Tail Motion ??

[Bombadeer]

Hi Guys!

I was wondering if ANY of you have ANY ideas about how I would go about scripting an animal’s swaying Tail Motion (much like the tail of a sperm).

I have one MovieClip acting as a body and I have about 5/6 smaller MovieClips that I want to act as a tail. So I have managed to get the tail (smaller MovieClips) to follow the body (large MovieClip) around in a linear slug like fashion.

I would ideally like the tail to give the illusion that it is propelling the animal forward.

Now here’s the awkward part… The body (large MovieClip) moves up, down, left and right without rotating so there is no true front end. So I need the tail to sway behind the direction the movieclip is moving…!

Any ideas???

Any response from you guys would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

[silentweed]

have a look if this app in my library may help:

:: Wag The Dog (Kinemetics) ::