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For this tut you will need Poser 5 and Animation Shop
you can try this in Poser 6 but as I do not have it then I will not presume this will work, if You do try and it does
could you please let me know.

1. Drag The Triangle to the far left and make sure the frame count is on 1.
2. Adjust your Lighting to highlight the face.(frame counter must be on 1 before doing this)
3. Click on the end frame window and type 6, hit enter and then click ok to the pop up.

1. Click on the face cam icon to give you a close up.(we are going to animate a wink)
2. Double click here to bring up the properties box.
3. use the properties dials to center your head.(DollyY for up and down DollyX Left and Right)
4. Drag your Document window to about 350x350.(this is to speed up your movie render.
5. Click on this so that as we move the head you dont see boxes instead of your head.
6. click here to turn off shadows only applies if you can see the ground.
7. We can use this tool to move the head or you can use the properties dials.(but not yet)
8. Click here to open the animation controls.

1. Move the frame slider to the far right to frame 6 of 6
2. click on the + sign to add a key frame you will not see anything happen but this makes sure
that the last animation frame matches the first.(important for continuos movement)

1. Move the frame slider to frame 3of 6.
2. Click on the head or use these drop down menus.(Figure 1 or Doll name and then Head)
3. Adjust the dial that says "Blink" or "Wink" to close an eye.(L or R its up to you)
4. If you want to add a turn of the head then use these tools or the properties dials.

1. Slide the frame counter to 6 of 6 then Click in the last frame box and type 9 this will add a gap to stop cotinuos winking, Click ok to the pop-up box.
2. un-check this little button so you can see full animation.
3. Select Animation/Make Movie.(you will now have a dialogue box like the one below)

1. Choose a name for your Files.
2. Select "Image Files" from the menu.
3. Select "full" from menu.
4. Select "Current Render Setting"
5. Click on Render settings.(you will get the Render dialogue box pop-up)
6. No need to adjust this as it can be done in Animation shop.

1. If you are sure you are ready click on the Production button.
2. Click "Render to new window"
3. Click on "Match document window"
4. Make the frame size the same as the image output settings

               Click OK on this pop-up to go back to the previous pop-up,
                  Click OK on that pop-up as well which will bring up the
                                          Save location properties box.

1. Create an empty folder to save the files to.
2. Name the files
3. Make sure file type is PNG
4. Click Save and go make tea.

When Done open Animation Shop

1. Either go to File Animation Wizard or Click on the Animation Wizard Icon.

1. Check Button,"Same Size".
2. Hit Next.

1. Check Button,"Transparent".
2. Hit Next.

1. Check Button,"Upper left corner".
2. Check Button,"With canvas colour".
3. Hit Next.

1. Check Button, Repeat Animation".
2. Set Frame Speed to "25".
3. Hit Next.

Click on, "Add Image"

1. Drag a selection around files.
2. Click Open.

1. Place Files in order if needed.
2. Hit Next.

1. Hit Finish.

1. Go to File Save as and save animation.
2. You can Play the animation with this button if you like.

All Done.

Caution! it would be best to start with the Poser standard light set and maybe Draft Render Quality as you are rendering 9 frames and this will be time consuming.