In this lesson I was given a brief to create walk cycles. In animation, making a character you have created walk and make it look realistic is one of the hardest things to do in animation which is why I am glad we have started it. This is my work so far:
This shows all of the stages in one step in a walking sequence. As you can see the main point of concentration is in that one step. All the feet placments interlink with each other. If they don't the character tends to slide slightly as if they are walking on ice. For a professional animation, this does not look good.
I decided to do the sideways walk sequence on paper as I felt it was easier to focus on the movement rather than focusing on the software as this particular walk sequence was more complex. I then took photos of them and put them together in sony vegas. I uploaded the finished animation to Youtbe. Despite the character having no arms, I am quite happy with what I have done as I found walking very difficult to get right. I will add arms at a later stage when I become more accomplished with the walking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh9yi1xmIfc&feature=youtu.be
I then did the forwards walking sequence in photoshop as I found it easier to draw and it's always to good to experiment with different mediums. I am very happy with how this sequence turned out as I thought it would be extremely difficult to get the perspective right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5ClYzVm5WM
I did my animal walk cycle on photoshop because drawing it seemed too difficult. At first I was going to make a lion walk but then I realized that I would had to have learnt how to draw a lion before attempting to make it walk. Instead I drew a dog. The first thing I did was to look up how a dog walks. I found this video which shows a dog walking past the camera. I used this to get a rough idea of how a dogs body moves when it walks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAJlcQPoKv4
After that I found this picture on Google images that show the key steps of a dog walking. I used this as a reference for creating my cycle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgmuOY1Obj8
Even though it is only 1 second long, I'm still proud of how it turned out.
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