Originally Posted By: Machinery_Frank
Originally Posted By: AlbertoT
do you think is it possible , apart from the skill of the animator , to create feelings , body language etc if you are bound to use no more than , let's say ,60 bones for your character ?
Our body is fitted with hundreds bones, tendons and muscles


Yes. You can exaggerate some movements like in cartoon animation to express feelings just with a few bones. There is good literature available.

And for facial animations it can be good to blend bones animation (for the body) with morph targets (for the face).


something to keep in mind as well:
http://www.opserver.de/ubb7/ubbthreads.p...true#Post271824