swimming arm motion

[johnie]

Brad and Anyone else,

I'm trying to make a front swimming arm motion and am having dificulty. Any Ideas?

I got the leg actions down using perspective and by moving points but the arms just don't look right.

[evolbeagle]

I'm no help. You guys are way ahead of me. This is the only arm movement I've tried so far.

http://demo.voikos.com/animation/devil3.html

[BradBradleySL]

Johnie-what angle are we talking about?
The way I would do it is animate the basic movements, the rotation of the arm, then worry about the accuracy. Give me more info, angle etc. and I will try to make an example.

Brad

[BradBradleySL]

OK I did a quick front view example, you could probally go farther by having the arms rotate more. This IS just a quick example

url-

http://www14.brinkster.com/koolkit/swimming.swf

Brad

[johnie]

Front swimming up- out of the water- The perspective is looking down at the water with the swimmer moving up to the viewer-

I think I have an anime tape around here with that exact movement.

I liked the devil.