walking test animation

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Oct 2, 2009 11:41 PM #494979
Heres my walking test animation kitsune, hope its okay( the arms and body are really f'ed up tho :( )

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Oct 2, 2009 11:47 PM #494984
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Oct 2, 2009 11:59 PM #494990
Okay, I see a few things here you can improve:
-Keep the arms straighter. Try walking casually across the mirror from 1 side to another and look at your arms. They're not bent or anything, just swinging like a pendulum for balance.
-The legs aren't bad. I saw at the end you were getting faster and a bit lazier with your involvement of correcter movements. How you can help this is just doing 1 body part at a time. Just go across your whole animation with just 2 legs walking across the screen. After that add the torso, then the head, then the arms. It makes it easier to keep the same pace and make nothing look lazy.
-Your torso in this animation is perpendicular to the ground. it's straight up in a fixed position the whole time. During a walk the only person who would have a straight back would be a soldier or some other type of character like that... Keep it slightly bent more and you'll have a more casual feel me thinks.
-This is a diagram by richard williams
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There is only 1 frame in which the leg is 90 degrees bent and thats the red one, the middle one, the passing position. I recommend you work off that.

Now if you take all of this into consideration and try one more time I think you'll see a better result. Again, each animation you do is an improvement. I see a clear difference between this one and your first. Keep going!
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Oct 3, 2009 12:01 AM #494991
My dad downloaded that book for me, lol.
The fat shick dancing was pretty funny.

Basically do what Kitsune posted. Add easing as well.
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Oct 3, 2009 12:08 AM #494996
I bought Animators survival kit a while ago before going to college and then discovered its a required textbook for animation classes.
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Oct 3, 2009 12:30 AM #495006
Looks like hes doing the running man lol.