Realistic animation for Underwater based creatures

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#1

How in gods name would I go about re-creating this? I’ve been trying to create something to this effect for the longest time and at one point just gave up calling it “Impossible”. Then I see this on my feed-

I’m guessing its a mix between animations playing when it detects a certain movement, but it’s so smooth and has such good movement in terms of animation and controls that I have no idea how they actually did this.

If you could help me that’d be wonderfull, this would change a lot of creature-based underwater things and would make the experience much nicer.

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#2

That right there is a phenomenal example of Inverse Kinematics. Yes, you can animate with IK.

Before you try replicating this, I highly recommend reading this post.

Inverse Kinematics is nothing for basic programmers or animators, so I’d highly recommend mastering other fields before attempting this.

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#3

Yeah, didn’t know you could correctly animate with IK to such an extent. Either or, would of never guessed this, thanks for the help! I’ll respond here again if I manage to figure out something for it.

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