Starting the animation for 2_01_81 based on Roberts comments.

Here is the walk cycle made from a two step action moving the model bone forward every repeating step. I will now start on the blocking and if there are changes in the walk/march let me know and I can incorporate them.


Steve

The first step looks ok but after that Timan is sliding his feet back?

Don't do blocking yet. I should have done more to explain the workflow of doing walks before I started you on the walk cycle.

lemme put some notes together for you.....

Hey Stephen, I put some notes on walk poses in the main thread. Take a look a those.

Also, for your walk in particular, he just needs to do two paces; we'll make it cycle from there.

thanks!

Thanks Robert for the clip as it was very helpful. I can read the stuff but until I do it and make mistakes, as is obvious from the misstep caught by Mark, it does not seem to stick. Attached is a two step clip based on your tutorial and the action has been checked into SVN if you want to look at the action's keyframing. It linked in through the chor.


Again, thanks for talking the time that you do to help my animation skills. I think I owe you at least a drink.

Next steps???


Steve

OK. I think the walk cycle has improved but may still need some touch ups. I then started a take 1 blocking and just set up the camera where I thought we could get away with having woot and scarecrow at his sides. At the end of the blocking I did not yet pull the camera back or place Woot and Scarecrow because a the ending I am not sure of the exact timing.

We're off to seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..


The seeeeeeeeeee is held for a very long time. During that whole time is tinwoodman looking back and leaning forward on his foot? If so is there something else he should be doing with other parts?

Hi Stephen, that's not a bad first pass. Lemme get some notes together on the walk and poses....

Hi Stephen, looks good. The chor on the SVN didnt' have your work on the arm gestures so I've haven't touched on that. we'll go back to that when the walk is walking.

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Actually they are all going to walk thru that and lurch to a halt about 3 steps later.. Dont' worry about that yet, lets get the regular walking working first.

Robert,


Sorry this took me so long but got a little busy. Added breakdowns to walk and checked in the hand movements that were in the chor.

where is it?

Here are the takes. First is just a side view of the walk and second is the new walk cropped and with hand movements in blocking stage..

HI Stephen,

I'm just getting back to this tonight but I'm still getting your previous work on the SVN. Is the new stuff committed?

thanks

edit: on closer examination, what i got from the SVN is different from last week's but it's not the same as the movies you posted, which look farther along. can you try committing again?

Robert,

All the latest of my work has been checked in. I did not see a difference in the files and none were committed. If the files are different then I might not have saved my work properly. I will double check.

ok, I found the problem... TinwoodsmanMarch.act was in the Tinwoodman model folder and I hadn't thought to update that.

Stand by...

Here you go Stephen...

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thanks!

I am hoping this is better because I think the walk cycle stuff was finally starting to make sense. I think I got it. or at least got closer.

Again thanks for the help Robert.


Robert: I did not notice that you had checked in a version of the project and walk cycle until I was done working on my submission. I checked my project file over your version. If we need to revert that version or use that walk cycle that you checked in, feel free.

Thanks,

Steve

Ok... you had me stumped with this one... and then... Doh!

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thanks!