Keyframes dragger

[Owen 01]

I am experienced with keyframes from AE, and am able to scale, etc a puppet in CA. I have identified a dragger for the arm of a puppet, but cannot get it to appear in the Timeline area for the scene containing the puppet. What are the needed steps?

Better still, is there a source the describes keyframes and movements of body parts? I sense that I am missing some concepts behind the process.

[alank99101739 · Accepted solution]

I don't think draggers support keyframes (yet). If you want to do something similar, what you can do is move the dragger to the end point you want and then do a short recording. Then if you grab the tiny square at the top left of the recorded track (the blue bar) you can blend the start and will transition from the old position to the new. It's kind of a poor man's keyframing for draggers.

I would look at some of the videos on draggers. There are probably better ones around, but you could try episode 9 of this series. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-EY6SsWRcVPgYUTSuHP5bclgbj0877Kn - its a bit old now, there are some other episodes that show it as well, but it might have something useful.