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With this movie we go ahead and take a look at how easy it is to add animation to some of your Poser figures using some animation presets. Now this is not the Animation section where we're going to go into more detail using some of Poser's new and exciting features like Layer-based Animation, but we do cover in this one, right here, right now, how easy it is to add simple motion to your figure just by dragging and dropping. For the more advanced ones where we do work with animation layers and we will be working with keyframing and interpolation, and all those types of things, that's just a little bit later in this series, so you can hop to that if that's your key focus, but for right now, let's take a look at how easy it is to go ahead and add some of that motion to a simple character. Again, just a scene from the start here, I've got Jumping selected. This happens to be in the G2 Animation Section if you're looking for it on your own computer system. Just like any other thing, you apply your original pose. We've got Simon selected right now. Go ahead and click on that, load the data in, and we can see his position has changed. The differences now between this and the earlier poses we were doing is that if we move or scrub the Timeline, as it's called, you'll see the character actually change and animate over time. Pretty neat. Pretty darn easy to get in there. Now we will look at some other things where you can build your own animations, for example, using the Walk Designer that's built in, or Sync to Spoken Audio; that's another way to animate, but again, those things are going to be handled in the Animation section, not right here. I just wanted you to see that you can add simple motion here if you're just doing a simple animation and don't want to get into some of those other capacities just yet. But you can grab some pre-made files that you find here. Additionally, on the Web there are entire collections of for sale and free files that contain BVH motion, and if you're not familiar with that term, that stands for one of the original creators of computer motion, that stands for BioVision. So, Poser talks to BVH files. It imports them; it exports them. As a matter of fact, if we go ahead and double-click on this folder here, take ourselves up, come back down to Motion Capture, these are BVH files. So, if you want to scour the Web and just look for something like with Google that says dot BVH you can come across quite a few BVH files that you may want to use as well as some others. So, again, you can just click and there are your files in there. We could add; here if we added a BVH file right at the very end; it looks fine. Something that makes a little more sense. Maybe putting on gear. If we take our Timeline, scrub it all the way to the end. This motion's done. And add another motion file right here; We'll say Apply Original Pose. Do you wish to add frames to your scene to import the complete animation? The answer is, of course, Yes. Original animation was 120 frames long. That first clip, right now as it brings in that other data, we've gone up to 519 frames now. This is right where we had it before. Let's watch what happens now. We've got some skipping in a circle it looks like and it stops right there. Now, what if we wanted to make these two animations play nice together, because right now they don't. We can see where we end one animation, and we start another. The skipping one starts back there, the jump animation is up here. Well, how do we fix that? Well, that's not something you do at this point by just adding animation. That's where we will go into the Animation section and talk about how we use the exciting new capability of layer-based animation in Poser. Our next section that we'll review right here, is adding props to your characters. It's nice that some of them can come in with clothes already on them, but what if you wanted to add other clothes? That's what we'll be looking at in our next section.