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BnE
06-16-2003, 01:48 AM
hi there! i'm learning animation so here are my first walk cycles... i used low poly models. there are two characters, the robot and the little guy. i rigged each one and then i parented the guy to the robot and made IK for the hands so they follow the joysticks movements. it was for me incredibly difficult because i just hate rigging... it's too technical! i animated the walks on 16' and the run on 8' as i learned from the "Animator's survival kit" (Richards Williams). It's a really great book! please tell me what you think of it. i'm very inspired by Rayman animation and characters, i just love there simplicity! and yes, i forgot to say that it's all done in Lightwave. i wanted to use these cycles to learn Motion Mixer, but i just don't understand how to make good transitions. if someone has a good tut on MM, please tell me...
thanx! :) i hope you will like them!



run cycle (http://juliette.nfrance.com/~ju13364//ben/images/3d/finaux/lowpoly/ti_robo/run_cycle_divx5.avi)
walk cycle (http://juliette.nfrance.com/~ju13364//ben/images/3d/finaux/lowpoly/ti_robo/walk_cycle_divx5.avi)
tralala cycle (http://juliette.nfrance.com/~ju13364//ben/images/3d/finaux/lowpoly/ti_robo/tralala_cycle_divx5.avi)
i'm calling the last one tralala cycle because the little guy could be singing "tralalalalalalalala tralala and tralala" during the walk... :D


i forgot to say that the concepts are not mine. Giusep made the drawings! here is his gallery : http://www.3dvf.com/modules/galerie/artiste/761.html
Argon18
06-16-2003, 02:20 AM
Hehehe BnE those are cool animation cycles.
I like them and i think they are cool animated. Above all I like the guy on top, how he moves forward and backward, very funny.
Tralala one funniest one :)

Just one thing, animation wasnt running very smoothly in my player, (when file ends and go to beggining again), because the loop thing.
maybe because im rendering :) but i think you should put like 5 or 8 cycles in the file so we see it more smoothly.

cool ones. cya later
b1m2x3
06-16-2003, 02:52 AM
hahahahah that was awesome
i loved the little guy on top in the walk cycle.... bobbing around and all.
good job, now i just wanna see a longer animation with a plot :D
:applause:
BnE
06-16-2003, 01:39 PM
Argon18 : thanx! well, for the cycles, i tried to reduce download times, so i just rendered one cycle... it works fine on my player...(i use windows media player 6 and set it to repeat, i just hate the version 7...) i'm sorry it doesn't play well on your computer... i'm not gonna make other renders because i want to make a new animation with the robot. i'm really glad you like them! :)

b1m2x3 : thanx too! as i said to argon18, i'm gonna make a real animation(it will be very simple... something like a walk in the forest with the trees and the flowers...)

thanx people!
avalon
06-16-2003, 03:05 PM
:D :D :thumbsup: :applause:
Very lovely !
b1m2x3
06-16-2003, 04:31 PM
to get it to repeat in WMP, hit ctrl+t
verbal007
06-16-2003, 04:55 PM
Very nice. As it was already pointed out... the characting bouncing around at the controls is the cherry on top.

- Jeremy
BnE
06-16-2003, 05:05 PM
thanx Avalon!

b1m2x3 : thanx for the tip, i knew i could set wmp7 to repeat, but i just hate the player itself... too much little gadgets that just suck up my CPU memory. :scream:

verbal007 : hehe, thanx ! i love in animation the concept of counteraction(it means when the body goes up, the head goes down for example), so i used it everywhere i could... on the hands, the head, the torso.... :D
DaveW
06-17-2003, 03:31 PM
Very cool. I think the guy in the top bounces around too much during the walk and tralalala anims though.
BnE
06-17-2003, 04:58 PM
thanx! and yes i know i went a bit far in counter action and bounces... :D
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