Samstag, 25. Dezember 2010

Added more armswing

Modified version with quit more armswing. Was kind a hard to make it because the forearms were not transformable seperatly. (I only did the animations)

View from left side:



Right side view:

Freitag, 24. Dezember 2010

Another Walkcycle of some kind of a mech monster

I made another walkcycle. The rig that is used is fromm the "Animating Next-Gen Characters in Maya" 
(I only did the animations)
training. After i animated the walkcycle in Maya, i also made a version with sound. For this i used Adobe After Effects.


Without sound:



With sound added:

Samstag, 18. Dezember 2010

My first walkcycles

I made my first little walkcycle based on the Digital Tutors Training "Introduction to Maya Animation: Walk Cycle" 
(I only did the animations)

How i did the training:
1. First i watched the "Introduction to Maya Animation: Walk Cycle" training, without doing anything just watching and getting a clue of what its about and how things work.

2. I watched it again from the beginning. This time i made the walkcycle step by step with the video training as guide.
I also made short notes to every step.

3. After making the walk cycle with the video training as guide, i made a new walkcycle just with the help of my own notes i made before and without watching any video help.

And this is the result:



Might still be hard for me to do it without notes. 

After all i recognized that the offset of the arm swings from the foot steps are wrong.
But it looks very ryhtmic! So now the guy is listening to music and it looks good again.





Next i will do the walkcycle again, without using any notes or help.


Here it is, my first walkcycle i made without any help or guides nor references.