walk cycle thread... let's see some fuppin juice

[faroukbaaaaa]

nice one moonbeam. I did a similar one with an ice skater girl. Secondry action...peh! who cares... like I say, if it grooves ya truffles then that is the whole point

[Moonman]

Here's something a bit more in line with a regular walk cycle even if it's kinda...limited.

[spacesick]

faroukbaaaaa, that first one blew my F!$@in' MIND! and all of these are so inspirational. thanks, man!

and to think, all I have to show is this... bounce cycle? yeah that.

[stevencassidy13]

nice work all round, i really like your poses and action on your chick running back and forth moonman, would like to see it finished. heres a rough one for a game i was working on a couple a years ago.

[nimblepix]

Nice work you guys and gals!

Flash.
Brush tool.
22 frames at 15 fps. (edit: not moving that fast here though!)
5 layers.
Mike from Monsters Inc. used as a reference.

I'm vowing to do one simple animation a day for a while.
There are lots of mistakes on this,
but I'm just going to do better on the next one, not fix this.
Although . . .

[faroukbaaaaa]

lovelly movement nimble... great feeling

[cganim8r]

Mike from Monsters Inc. used as a reference..

Has this just been rotoscoped? It's identical to the walk cycle test from Cameron Miyasaki's website.

http://www.cameronmiyasaki.com/Animation/animation_frameset_SUB.htm

Here's some of the stuff I did on Wallace and Gromit Curse Of The Wererabbit computer game. Plenty of walk-cycles here.

Neil

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvLjj_32WdY[/youtube]

[spacejack]

Wow, I love all these walk cycles.

Mine is a bit more geeky than artistic, but I did this experiment a while back to try interpolating between keyframes in Flash using actionscript. So basically, you can slow down the animation to infinitely slow, but it'll still play at 60fps (or whatever).

I don't think I can embed flash, so here's a link: http://www.spacejack.org/games/flash/dog/

Use the + and - buttons to try out different speeds.

I built the animation by tracing over about 20 or 30 frames of a dog running, using MovieClip line segments. Then the script seeks through those frames for the positions of all the dog part movieclips (that's when you see the quick animation in the corner at startup.) Using those keyframes, it plays the interpolated results based on the milliseconds timer at the desired playback speed.

Then I tossed in some randomly placed, depth-sorted clouds, trees & grass to make it look cooler than it actually is. (there's some leftover debug output on screen there for the depth sorting.)

[nimblepix]

"Has this just been rotoscoped? It's identical to the walk cycle test from Cameron Miyasaki's website."

Yep, that's the one. Miyasaki is great!
I figure copying the best is a great way to learn.

Wow, that's fun stuff you've got there Neil.

[cganim8r]

"Has this just been rotoscoped? It's identical to the walk cycle test from Cameron Miyasaki's website."

Yep, that's the one. Miyasaki is great!
I figure copying the best is a great way to learn.

Wow, that's fun stuff you've got there Neil.

As reference, sure, but rotoscoping is just tracing for animators (I've done it once, too). I was given a good tongue-lashing from someone on here, just for using a grid to copy a photo! I've stopped now... using grids, that is, not drawing. LOL

You'd learn much more if you took his timings and applied it to something rather different.

Thanks for the compliment Nimblepix or, at least, I think that's what it was. .

Neil

[nimblepix]

Neil,

Yes, it was a compliment. Fun is good.

Thanks for your concern about the way I put this together. Really.

I do feel that rotoscoping is fine when learning to animate, not to the exclusion of other methods however.
Anything that gets a person to study motion at this intimate level is good as far as I'm concerned. It's just part of the many tools that we have available in order to learn this craft.
I think I learned a lot from copying this, things that I might not have noticed by simple observation.

There are things to be said for copying art too, but I don't want to hijack this topic.

[faroukbaaaaa]

boo to you nimble... bad tracer you!
you should have made it clear that you traced the whole thing

I feel like you let me down... I thought you were great for a while there

....boo

[nimblepix]

boo to you nimble... bad tracer you!
you should have made it clear that you traced the whole thing

I feel like you let me down... I thought you were great for a while there

....boo

Ha!!!
I'll have to try to redeem myself now.
I feel so small. : )

[patsanimation]

Well I can't embed this so here's a link-

http://patsanimation.com/Portfolio/animation-storyboards/tekanim-sm2.mov

[Moonman]

Dunno why I didn't submit these as they're pretty much the only legit walk cycles I've actually completed. Think I had it in my head this was a gif-only thread.

This was supposed to be a 'lazy' stride.


And a 'frustrated' stride.