Craft animation tools are the alternate name using for craft director tool. The purpose of both tools is similar. Craft director tools are used for creating animation in all the animation related software.e.g. Autodesk Maya, 3Ds Max etc.This tool divides the animation into three segments, Simulation, Interactivity and Key-frames. It shows the easy and realistic camera simulation in real time with accuracy. It shows you every bit of changing in the object movement clearly. When you apply key frames for the animation and then play it, you see the movement along with key frames. Craft animation tool has made it easy to use camera set up limit and natural simulation. If you have scene about the craft animation tools then it is easy to manage with it. Using craft animation tool, make a render simulator and then assign jeep material to that simulator geometry. Adjust it well the hierarchy jeep geometry with simulator geometry by setting its radius. When you have done the scene setup completely then check the road is appropriate for simulation. You can see the arrow sign in the scene and just drag it to the object model. Now hide the lower side geometry and the jeep will become perfect in shape. Before starting simulation, adjust the time setup to see how the character simulates. Now take a test play animation and you can see the natural simulation in your scene along with the key frames changing. Now do some changing and add camera effect to the scene. Adjust the camera into model and play the animation again. You see the jeep is still simulating before but it is now caring of hurdle and when it feels any hurdle, it turns back and drive on another way. The camera is important component in any animation project because when you play the animation, it is needed extremely. This tool can record the simulation of key frames in Maya and 3d studio max. The calculation of key frames is resulted in simulation and enables the character to move in real time. The following video tutorial will help you to learn this concept better.
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