Walk Cycles

[chuckpa]

Several months ago I came across a detailed web tutorial on drawing human figures walking.

http://www.idleworm.com/how/anm/02w/walks.shtml

The site also has other good animation tips.

[Truroneil]

Marcus,
A fine job. Both figures are effective. You animators amze me. Marcus, your figures are so simple yet so successful Delightful.
Neil

[Mike Bailey]

Maybe you can use this maybe not? Its a BVH motion /Corel Xara animation. I skiped every other frame to reduce the file size, there is enough here to get the picture.

[Mike Bailey]

Here is the Gif so you can see it.

[Mike Bailey]

Here is another one just for fun.

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[gwpriester]

Mike

Those are cool! How'd you do it?

Gary

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[Mike Bailey]

Hi Gary and all, I used Poser 4, Ray Dream and Corel Xara. The walking stick guy is stock out- a-the-box Poser, I changed the color of it. Imported a BVH walking motion file into poser to animate it. Poser makes AVI movies (no good for the web) and the entire sequence was 216 frames, I exported every other frame as a bitmap until I had one complete walk cycle, With Xara I imported each image onto a new Xara animation frame. Save as GIF.

So if anyones wants to track a walk, there you have it. Note that you can see subtle movement in the chest and hips of the stick figure as it walks through the cycle, this might be something to consider when drawing from scratch.

The dancing one is another Poser figure + a Ray Dream computer monitor as a prop. I stuck the monitor on the figures head, Then conformed the prop to the figure so it would get animated along with the figure. Imported a BVH Dance motion file, I think it totaled about 800 frames, I selected only a few frames out of the sequence and used them in the Xara animation.

Thats it, nothing special, just a combination of software that I play with.

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[Egg Bramhill]

I d/l the walker.xar file, then traced each bitmap and imported each trace into Flash.
The tracing was set at a very low trace and this is the result flash walker
The file is 25 Kb. I think the effect of the tracing gives it a very strange random skeleton effect. Whilst no one frame is recognisable as human the final animation is very recognisable.
Egg

[Mike Bailey]

Hi Egg, looks kinda like an alien. COOL!

[alkolka]

Egg -- your walker is hypnotically beautiful!

Al Kolka
alkolka@attbi.com