Action Basic
Keep and Reuse Actions with the Action Library
Last Updated: 24 2 月, 2025Visual Paradigm Online is a powerful online animation creation tool that offers endless possibilities for creating animations across various purposes. One of its standout features is the ability to customize poses and actions to suit your specific needs, allowing you to create truly unique animations. However, after spending time perfecting an action or pose, you might want to reuse it in other projects without having to recreate it from scratch. This is where the Action Library comes in handy, as it allows you to save and store your custom actions and poses for future use. Keep and Reuse Actions with the Action Library Save as Action In the editor, select the action, right click and press Send Action to Action Library. Save as Pose Select the action, move the playhead to the frame you want, then right click and press Send Frame to Action Library (As Pose). If it is a pose, select it and right click, then press Send Action to Action Library. Manage the Saved Actions Those saved action...
Split an Action into Two Parts
Last Updated: 12 3 月, 2025Visual Paradigm Online is a professional animation tool designed to help you create stunning animations for various purposes. With its wide range of customizable options, VP Online empowers animators to craft the exact actions and animations they need. In this video, we will demonstrate how to split an action into two parts, allowing for more granular control and creativity in your animation projects. Why Split an Action Splitting an action can be essential when you need to customize different parts of a movement uniquely. For example, you might want one part of an action to have a different speed, intensity, or direction than another. By splitting the action, you can apply specific adjustments to each segment, enhancing the overall animation’s realism and fluidity. Additionally, splitting an action as pose allows you to insert specific poses or transitions between two segments of an action. By breaking down an action into two parts and editing the pose in between, you can creat...
Repeat an Action or a Pose
Last Updated: 12 3 月, 2025Creating fluid and dynamic animations often involves using a variety of movements and expressions. Visual Paradigm Online offers a wide array of premade actions and poses that can be seamlessly blended together to bring your characters to life. But did you know that many of these actions are designed to be repeatable? This means you do not have to manually add the same action multiple times. Instead, you can choose to repeat an action or pose effortlessly, making your workflow more efficient. In this tutorial, we will show you how to utilize the repeat feature to streamline your animation process. Common Uses and Benefits of the Repeat Feature The repeat feature is particularly useful for actions that are inherently continuous, such as walking, running, or even repetitive gestures like waving. By repeating these actions, you create a more natural flow, especially in scenes where characters need to perform the same action over an extended period. One of the major benefits of using the ...
Rotate a Character
Last Updated: 12 3 月, 2025Visual Paradigm Online is a professional online animation maker that includes a diverse selection of 3D characters. One of the key features of these 3D characters is their ability to perform actions without being limited by perspective. You can freely move their body parts and have them face any direction according to your needs. In this tutorial, we will show you how to rotate a character in VP Online. 2D vs. 3D Characters: Exploring the Differences 2D characters are limited to a flat, fixed perspective, where their movements are constrained to a single plane, making them appear less dynamic. They can only be viewed from the front, side, or back, and any change in perspective requires redrawing or manipulating the character, which can be time-consuming and less flexible. In contrast, 3D characters are not bound by these restrictions. They exist in a fully three-dimensional space, allowing you to rotate them freely and view them from any angle. This flexibility enables 3D characters t...
Seamless Action Transition with Blending
Last Updated: 24 2 月, 2025Visual Paradigm Online provides an extensive library of actions to enhance your animations. To ensure smooth transitions between these actions, blending is crucial. In this tutorial, we will explore how blending works and how it can be utilized to create seamless action transitions. Blending between actions involves smoothly transitioning from one action to another, preventing abrupt changes and creating a more fluid animation. This technique helps to bridge the gap between different actions, ensuring that the transition feels natural and cohesive. Blending between Actions Adjusting Blending for Smooth Transitions After adding an action, blending is usually applied automatically. You can adjust the blending section to control how much of the actions overlap. If there is no blending part, right-click on the latter action bar and select Create Blending. If you do not want to have a noticeable affect on the former action, you can move the later action’s bar, leaving a gap between t...
Merge Two Actions
Last Updated: 24 2 月, 2025Visual Paradigm Online provides powerful customization options for character actions in your animation, and merging actions is one of the key features for refining and organizing your work. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of merging two actions and explore how this feature can enhance your animation workflow. How to Merge the Actions When there are more than one actions, you can select the action bar, and press the merge button on the right below the bar. You can also select the former action, and then find the Merge With Next Action under more or in the right-click menu. The two actions, including the blending part, will be merged together as one action bar. When to Merge Actions Case 1: Group and Tidy Up Your Timeline After splitting actions into smaller parts to achieve precise customization—such as changing hand props, editing poses, or rotating characters—you may end up with numerous segments on your timeline. Once you’ve perfected the individual segments,...
Adjust the Speed of Character Action
Last Updated: 24 2 月, 2025In animation, the speed and duration of each action can significantly impact the flow and emotional tone of your project. Every action in Visual Paradigm Online comes with its own predefined speed, which may not always align with your specific timing or emotional needs. Therefore, adjusting the speed of character actions is essential to achieving the desired effect in your animation. Reasons to Adjust the Speed of Character Actions VP Online provides an extensive library with over 2000 actions covering various activities such as talking, walking, dancing, and sports. While these actions come with default speeds, they may not always fit the exact timing or emotional nuance you’re aiming for. In such cases, adjusting the speed of an action can help you synchronize it perfectly with other elements in your animation. For instance, speeding up a walking action can convey urgency or excitement, while slowing it down might emphasize a character’s contemplation or fatigue. Adjusting the speed...
Trim An Action On The Timeline
Last Updated: 24 2 月, 2025Editing the action on timeline to ensure that every action fits perfectly within your animation is crucial for creating a polished and professional final product. Visual Paradigm Online, a professional online animation maker, offers a trim feature that allows you to precisely crop actions to match your vision. In this tutorial, we will discuss more about trimming in the tool. Why Trim Actions? Sometimes, certain actions of a character may be too long, or you might be interested in focusing on a specific fragment of the action. In such cases, you can utilize the trim feature to crop the action precisely. Trimming helps in fine-tuning your animation, ensuring that each movement contributes effectively to the story without unnecessary or prolonged actions. This not only improves the pacing but also keeps the audience engaged by eliminating any redundant parts. Trimming Action in VP Online In the editor, select the action, then click the button on the side of the bar, you can find that th...
