Lifting the Weight

At first I was puzzled at how to get my character to pick up the weight from the floor.
After spending a few minutes deep in thought, and other few minutes playin around in Max, I realised how - Dummies!!


This was the first time I had used dummies, so I followed a simple online tutorial and soon enough, the weight was off the ground and into my characters hands.


Here is a brief rundown of what I did;


Make 2 dummys, 1 for the object and 1 for the characters hand,
Select the object, go to - Animation>Constraints>Link Constraints,
Select 1 dummy on Frame 0,
Repeat last 2 steps at Frame 37 (frame where lift occurs).

Character Update

Here are two clips of my character. The reason I added another short animation, was because the walk cycle was only 10 seconds long, so I made a new animation showing the character stretching and psyching himself up, ready for the lift.