Please share your run/ walk cycle files!

[pit]

Just a thought:

"The Animators Survival Kit" by Richard Williams
ISBN 0-571-20228-4


The Illusion of Life - Disney Animation by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson
ISBN 0-7868-6070-7

Both great books! All you need to get going with animation!

[JIII]

What I was just hoping to get some free walk cycles.

But man animating is just so hard, I would not spend too much time analyzing anyones work too much. I don't really have the patience to learn it well.

Get to work on it and man its gonna eat up your time like a... well you know like mad.

[That Adrian Guy]

it's not about the physical run cycle...
it's about the technical side... I wanna see the heirchies you guys use and which methods you use to control the IK

[CosmicBear]

hope this helps. this walkcycle was done as a test for the set-up. i know, there's still lots of room for improvement, but as i'm not animating with walkcycles, i left it at this point.

please remember, that this guy is a little robot, that's why he's so stiff.

http://www.cosmicbear.de/img/walkcycle.gif

http://www.cosmicbear.de/img/walkbones.gif

and here's the file (only bones due to size; i erased the bones for the hand-poses, etc. to keep it small)

walkcycle-file (http://www.cosmicbear.de/download/walkcycle.c4d.zip)

adrian, it's an R8-file, i'm sorry. if i remember correctly, you're on R7, right? the setup uses soft-ik and userdata-sliders, so i couldn't convert it. maybe you can check it out in the demo?

[Kirl]

Looking good... :thumbsup:

But what exactly is this soft-IK I keep hearing so much about?

[JIII]

Check out

www.maxon.net they are the folks who make and sell these great programs anyway.


SOFT IK is partof mocca. which is a mdule for C4D R8. MOCCA stands for MotionCaptureand CharacterAnimation.

besides that maxon is the leading expert.

[That Adrian Guy]

Excellent reply Cosmic! So day I'll be among the R8 elite
:D

[Kirl]

Great thanks JIII...

I'll really have to think about making the 'real' switch to R8...

[flingster]

CosmicBear: like That Adrian Guy i've been wondering about this stuff....thanks for the file...i opened it up and then quickly closed it...realising how much i gotta learn....so i'm not gonna use it yet...but i'm definitely gonna come back to it....:wip:
thanks again.

[flingster]

not a file..but a quick tut...could be useful
http://www.rubberbug.com/tutorials.htm

[CosmicBear]

glad i could help... at least a little bit.

to name another book (besides the two 'bibles' pit has mentioned above) that helped me with those things, you might wanna check out 'the animator's workbook' by tony white. it's actually traditional paper/pencil-animation, but especially when you want to archive a cartoon-style-animation it helps alot

the tut flingster has posted is nice, but if you look at the animated gif you'll see that it looks a little bit like the character is doing 'the moonwalk' with his arms. he has the arms in the right positions for the keyframes, but they are moving up instead of down when the arm moves backwards. that gives the effect.

[flingster]

That Adrian Guy:
don't want to mess up this thread with a load of links...as i know you want reference files rather than tuts...but for those others reading.

that famous rat
http://www.creativecow.net/articles/hauth_sven/rat/index.html

http://www.anticz.com/Walks.htm
http://www.anticz.com/animatio.htm

CosmicBear: i guess when you do stuff like this all the time...you notice little things like that...but i didn't even notice it until you point it out...thanks its worth baring in mind...:thumbsup:

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