First attempt at Animata!

I'm one step closer to making angry pandas come to life! I started by uploading a drawing of a panda arm and with the help of a tutorial available on the Animata website, I was able to animate it!  I started by creating a skeleton around the arm, then creating joints were I wanted the arm to move, e.g. wrist, elbow then created a fixed joint in the shoulder.  I then made vertices where the wrist, elbow, shoulder met, this is basically creation a circle around the hand, forearm and upper arm,  the circle/vertex indicates how that part of the arm is capable of rotating.  After this you could them simple guide the arm to where you wanted it to move.  To finally make the arm move you simply increase the tempo and the arm moves automatically.  You can also control the stiffness of the movement and how much the joint moves.  My next step is to incorporate what I've done with the camera on my laptop or a Kinect, so I can manipulate the movement with my own arm.