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701 Walking
31st August 2019
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pablofurni
In this video Pablo goes over the animation principles seeing in the past videos applying them to a walkcycle animation on a more complex rig.
Please download the blender file here
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Akindeji Adesokan
17th April 2020 - 04:28
how come there aren't any other step by step tutorials like the walking biped module?
Gemma María Rull
20th September 2019 - 21:26
Now, that's great for a manly walking. Will we have a modelling lady walking on heels explained too?
pablofurni
23rd September 2019 - 13:49
*@Gemma Maria Rull* Maybe! but I won't make the video reference for that xD
stukove
4th October 2019 - 11:37
will you talk about how can people go further and deeper in animating after these tutorial ?
pablofurni
10th October 2019 - 11:38
*@stukove* Hi, We have some more animation tutorial that we wanna do, in the future we will make some tutorials about how to animate a shot.
Talhat J
25th October 2019 - 11:21
when ca we expect them? *@pablofurni*
pablofurni
28th October 2019 - 12:19
*@Talhat J* not sure! we are a bit busy right now
Cédric Born
9th October 2019 - 20:43
Hi Pablo, thanks a lot for this great serie. One thing I don't understand is the link between a walk cycle and a real animation in a scene. Say a character is walking in a scene then stops, then walks again faster or a bit differently. Do you just use your walk cycle as a reference or do you import it in the scene as an action then repeat it in the nla and offset the root bone ? I remember Hjalti mentionning in a video that animating the root bone is a big No-No, but in this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y--OYM2uDvI they seem to say they animate the root bone. I'm a bit confused. Can you tell me what the best workflow from walk cycle to real scene animation is ? Thanks forward
pablofurni
10th October 2019 - 11:36
*@Cédric Born* Hi!! We usually do the walk cycles in preproduction to define how the character is going to move and later use them as reference. In my workflow I use the walk cycle as a guide, to see the main key poses, but in a real scene I don't use them, I animate all from scratch, because of what you said, there is different rhythms and I feel more comfortable animating it by myself. I only use them if the shot it is a simple walk that doesn't require changes, in that case can be useful.
But in case you want to use the walk cycle in a scene there are two ways.
If you want to change the rhythm you need to copy and paste and manually adjust the curves to be repeating until you want to change and animate it.
All depends of the needs of the shot
In the video, the root is the pelvis control, usually is call root also and the big controller on the floor can be called master, just different ways to name the bones, but in this case I'm 100% sure he is talking about the control that move all the torso.
Hope this helps you a bit xD
Cédric Born
13th October 2019 - 22:17
*@pablofurni* wonderful, Thanks for the explanation. Now I think I get it.
Diaa Homsy
24th March 2020 - 23:19
Hi there! I'm really enjoying these videos, they're so useful. Though, I would like to learn how to rig my own character the same way as you do. Do you have some videos or maybe some suggestion where could i find such things? Thanks
pablofurni
26th March 2020 - 18:52
*@Diaa Homsy* Hi!! we are going to have something rig related soon, but it will be more like a breakdown, but i think not a full rig tutorial at the moment.
Akindeji Adesokan
17th April 2020 - 04:11
Are there any plants to do other animation tutorials after this or are you done with the fundamentals series