Ok, so I guess its time to move on to some more exciting things. Everything has been pretty basic and boring thus far, so the thought of some walk cycles is pretty exciting.
So before we start I guess lets get out some reference(Richard Williams) and take it from there.
Dick says, no two ppl walk the same, no walk is the same. The principles of a walk are all the same, but every walk is different. Heres a great tidbit, actors try and figure out a character by figuring out how they walk, try to tell the whole story with just a walk. I remember a friend of mine in the acting industry was telling me a story about an actor name Arron Eckhart(two face in batman) Just walking around set, trying all sorts of things changing the time, posing, and just walking in circles for what seemed like ages(he was wierded out). When you think about how important a walk is to an actor though it should be totally normal to see this. So with this in mind when we get a character to animate, its super important to nail the walk.
On to the animation. I just watched a rad little animated short called Jungle Jail, and was pretty stoked when the main character had just conquered the jails tough guy, and started to power trip. And was walking through the jail like he was macho man. So here is the walk I did which is kinda emulating that one.
So using the timing chart Williams gave us pg 109 of the survival kit, I chose to do my first walk on 16's. 16 frames per step, 32 frame cycle. Starting on frame 1 ending on frame 33. Here is the side view of the walk.
Ok so with that stuff posted, Ill post my work flow next for this particular walk. After that's explained, hopefully i'll be able to start getting into much cooler personality walks that are outlined in the book.
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