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DAN220 Walk cycle

I figured for this walk cycle that the more exaggerated it was, the better. I imagined a very cliche “bad guy” sneak overall, aimed at younger children. I think I was doing well with it, but I definitely could have put more time into tweaking it.

As you can see from my earlier blog posts, I found some reference footage for the walk cycles and identified and drew out some of the key poses to help me base my walk cycle off of.

Anticipation and follow through are two of the most used principles in my current walk cycle I think, mostly because it’s so exaggerated.

After I posted my progress, I needed to fix up the walk cycle seeing as the starting position was standing still and didn’t loop. Mostly I just needed to flesh out more of my walk, but overall the walk was relatively well done! Which is nice.

If I had more time, I would have liked to add a little bit of variety and more character to the walk, and to fix up a couple of little things that have been bugging me (mostly things like the feet looking a bit off)

Another rough render of my sneaking animation that I’ve chosen to complete - I needed to fix up the fact that my walk cycle started at a standing position (woops), and I needed to add a lot more key frames - I didn’t map out all of the contacts. I still technically haven’t yet, but it’s coming along a lot more now.

I need to fix up the arms because they’ve gone all wonky, but I think I’m getting close now

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Here’s my sneaking walk cycle - I’ve done a bit more to it since getting feedback. I still need to fix up the start of the walk, but I think it’s coming together quite nicely now! ( I need to fix up the timing though - it’s much too fast)

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My first walk cycle of an angry walk - I don’t think I’ll be going on with this one, I think I prefer the sneaking walk cycle.

Apart from adding more to the walk, I needed to remember that this is a walk cycle, so starting from a standing position looks off - I’ll need to fix that in my sneaking walk too.

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I found this walk cycle a lot harder to analyse... SO I’ve only got three poses and they’re a bit off still, which is annoying.

I’ve just got a basic walk for my second one - I’ll probably take some liberties and tweak it quite a bit later

So here’s the first walk cycle I’ve chosen to reference for my DAN220 assessment. I tried to draw the poses, and I think I did okay, but it doesn’t seem angry enough to me for some of the poses. I guess it’ll all seem more fluid all together.

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Well, I was pretty proud of this one until I couldn’t get the frames per second to coincide.... I did not give myself enough time for these animations - I’ve been so busy with DAN230 that I almost forgot about this to be honest...

I should have added many more in betweens, but yet again, I ran out of time. I also accidentally kept drawing him bigger as the frames went on :/

This one is strangely hard to make it look really good... EIther that or I’m just not very good at this lol

Yet again, this kind of stuffed up when I hit auto in the curve editor...I would be able to fix it if I had more time but I just don’t...

I keep stuffing up the with the legs moving but I’ve hit keyframe? And it still moves anyway?

I’m much happier with this one than I am with the jumping animation - I still don’t think I gave myself enough time to work on it properly though. It could definitely do with some tweaking...

This is my jumping animation - I had a bit of trouble getting it all to sit right once I set the curve editor to auto so I did the best I could to even it out again :/ And now his legs just kind of lift off which is tedious

It’s a bit juddery and isn’t nearly as smooth as I would like it