Create A Snake Animation Using Spring Magic In 3D Studio Max

Create A Snake Animation Using Spring Magic In 3D Studio Max

on Feb 17th 2012 with 8 comments
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In this tutorial Chandan Kumar will introduce you to Spring Magic, a very useful free script for animating bones or splines in 3D Studio Max. This script is extremely easy to use and will save you the time consuming task of hand animating bone chains. As a practical example, Chandan will show you how this tool can be used to animate a snake model in only a few minutes!

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My name is Chandan Kumar and I am a CG and VFX artist/trainer from India.  

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  • LoydB

    Great little tutorial, thanks!

    • http://www.vfxrider.com Chandan Kumar
      Author

      Thanks LoydB to like this. Cheers! :)

  • pavan

    thanks…man… proud to be an indian

  • Hooper

    Don’t stop now…keep ‘em coming!
    thanx!

  • http://www.frameboxx.in Sachin B

    3ds max is jewel among the 3d softwares and Chandan Kumar is the jewel among the tut makers in cgtuts+.Thanx for such a useful tutorial!

  • http://www.alkabeergrafix.com/index.html Asim

    Thanks a lot for another V. Useful Information… Good Luck !

  • http://theanimationspot.com/ Adam K

    Nice animation, Very good. Please try more or make big animation movie.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kiran.dhareshwar Kiran Dhareshwar

    i always get a error messege when i have bone selected and apply , “Unknown property: “x_rotation” in Controller:TCB_Rotation”, Please can you let me know why and how to get rid of it, I have done exactly the same as ur tutorial