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Quick Start: Animating a Walking Dinosaur

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The CAT rig is aligned underneath the dinosaur skin mesh.

Tutorial: Creating a walking motion path
With the rig and the skin applied, you are ready to animate the dinosaur walking. This is where applying
the CAT rig shows its usefulness.
To animate the dinosaur walking, follow these steps:
1. Right-click in the viewport, and select the Unhide All option to make all scene objects visible
again.
2. Select the CAT Parent object, and drag it in the Top viewport to the upper-right corner of the
plane object; then rotate it to face the center of the plane object.
3. In the main interface along the bottom edge, locate the Time Configuration button and click it. In
the Time Configuration dialog box, set the End Time to 300 and close the dialog box. This
increases the frame range to 300.
4. Select the Create ➪ Helpers ➪ Dummy menu command, and drag in the Top viewport to create a
dummy object near the dinosaur’s location. With the dummy object still selected, click the Auto
Key button at the bottom of the interface, drag the Time Slider to frame 300, and move the
dummy object across the viewport to the lower-left corner of the Top viewport. Then turn off the
Auto Key button.

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