help needed creating seamless horse carousel animation...

[nickholl]

hi

I'm trying to create a horse carousel animation (see attached image) and am having trouble getting the horses to bob up and down seamlessly. 

Currently Ive animated each horse going up and down at a slight offset and then done a pre/post infinity loop on each. The problem is that this doesn't make it seamless once it gets to the end of the overall carousel rotation 😞

Would anybody have any tips on how best to go about this?

many thanks!

[Anonymous]

Check your curves - make sure they are smoothly transitioning between the beginning and end of the cycle. Also, assuming you have the same pose on the first and last frame, you can take off the last frame so it's not playing twice. That will always cause a slight delay when the cycle repeats.

[nickholl]

Hi!

the problem I'm facing is that because I'm offsetting the horse animations, they're all at different heights at the end of the overall carousel rotation.

If i was creating a seamless tile in photoshop, i would use the 'offset' tool that would basically wrap the end round to the beginning. I guess I somehow need to do the same for this animation?