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I’ve been trying to get a more natural, flowing movement for a character’s silk scarf in my latest 2D project, but my keyframes feel really stiff. I’m using a basic wave deformation rig and the secondary motion just isn’t selling the lightweight material. Has anyone found a good method for planning the overlapping action on something this thin and fluid?

I chased that light flutter by splitting motion into two passes. First I kept the leading edge tied to the body with a light constraint, then I added a separate secondary jiggle that trails by a frame or two. The result reads more wind than warp without squashing the body motion. The trick was dialing damping super low on the lead and letting the rest lag just enough to read as fabric, not a string.

I spent a week tweaking the bend rig and still hit stiff moments where the silhouette crashes with the arm pose. Sometimes it felt like the real problem was timing between poses more than the rig. If I loosened a few frames around fast moves, it helped the movement breathe, but then it looked off in slow turns.

I went off the rails a bit and treated it like several strands instead of one sheet. I drew rough paths for three anchor points, then let the rest follow with a tiny random offset. It made the motion feel more organic, but every pose change meant redoing the offsets, so it was a headache and never quite there.

Do you think the issue is the fabric or the timing with arm movement?

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