How to animate a massive, realistic crowd

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This is how to animate a crowd.

 

1. Spawn a 5*5 grid of people (can be any size but if it is something tiny it will look unrealistic)
2. Animate them
3. Parent them all to a folder
4. Duplicate the folder and put it next to the original
5. Edit it a tiny bit
6. Duplicate both of them so that you have two different variations and make a crowd!

Edited October 27, 2014 by Willbl3pic

[Bisharp 233]

This is a great way to make a massive crowd with like over 200 people, for smaller its less effective as you can easily see the animations being the same

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This is a great way to make a massive crowd with like over 200 people, for smaller its less effective as you can easily see the animations being the same

Yeah, but in a battle scene for example when it's really zoomed out and you can see the whole army, or a big mob and you can see the whole mob, it can be effective!

[Akmal Zonia 2k]

Animators used "Crowd Duplicator"!

It was super effective!

[Bisharp 233]

Yeah, but in a battle scene for example when it's really zoomed out and you can see the whole army, or a big mob and you can see the whole mob, it can be effective!

 

Thats indeed a perfect situation to use this

[KrisFirebolt 969]

And for 0.7 and older users?

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And for 0.7 and older users?

You could duplicate the people...

[flufffybuns 926]

Isn't this laggy?
 

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Isn't this laggy?

 

Well yes, but that would happen whenever you animate a big crowd, whether it is using this method or not.