Smooth Animating

[DerpDerp]

I don't know if this is the right board, but anyway, I was wondering how do some people make very smooth animations in modeling programs.

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[Thorfin25]

Hard work and dedication. You can YouTube how to properly animate in your respective 3d modeling software to see what exactly it's all about.

[DerpDerp]

Well, I use Milkshape, and there's pretty much no tutorials on animation smoothly

[Dannu]

I'd use Blender. There's more documentation for it, community help threads and it's better, in my humble opinion.

[the_stitch]

If you're doing smooth animation, make sure you keep 3 things in mind:
1. how fast the animation will be playing can ruin the animation, so try to avoid making it complicated.
2. spacing between keyframes should stay even-ish to keep it from being choppy.
3. copy the first keyframe, and put it at the end. It'll bring the animation back to a somewhat reasonable point. EDIT: This should only be done for animations that loop
Do this, and you should end up with something resembling smooth animation.