Basic Animation question
 

Hi, is it possible to have a really high rez character, but instead of messing with the really hig poly char, animate a low poly dummy char and make Maya mimic the movement of low poly dummy?

if so, would anyone know where i might find a tutorial on it, or if simple just tell me what i could do?

Thanks.

Hi you can make a low poly version of the high res and use it as a wrap deformer to animate and then only turn the high res on to render .
I don't know of a tutorial off hand for you to look at but the maya docs will explain wrap deformers although for a biginner this might prove to be a little envolved .

thanks! worked great. i make instance dupe to side of it so i can see it being manipulated, woohoo!

of corse if your smoothing on the fliy to get to the highpoly count, you can just tern on your smooth nodes when you want to render.