Learning Advanced Animation?

[mediumaevum]

@Coen4d

You are right there are almost no tutorials doing a progressive walkcycle, most are static, which is stupid because you always want to start with a progressive cycle, that you can than convert in a static cycle if you need to.

Creating a progressive walkcycle is not that hard, just leave the main-bone at starting position, aim you character as convenient as possible with the main-bone, than just pose your character with the center-of-gravity-bone and IK/FK-bones, just like stop motion kind of.

Than if you made 2 steps, you can use modifiers on your curves to cycle progressive, or use the NLA editor to cycle the action progressive.

Could you explain in more detail how to achieve this? I don’t think I quite understand your approach.

I’ve watched this tutorial on offset an animation cycle:

Offset an Animation Cycle in Blender Tutorial

The trick is to align the root bone for every step, and have it move with Constant Interpolation.

But I have trouble aligning the root bone.
It is almost impossible for me to align it just right without frame skipping. It needs to be just right.

• And it doesn’t work with curves.

[tyrant_monkey]

@gigalian

If you want to be advanced at any subject, don’t ask “how?” ask “why?”. Those classical books are great at explaining the reasons of their decisions by the grandfathers of the animation.

You have not read that book at all…

[_hris (Christoph)]

I’ll just leave this webinar here. It answers a lot of questions for new animators

[Coen4d]

I would leave the root-bone stationary, have 2 steps animated got to the graph editor, press “Shift E” make cyclic. than go to n panel in graph editor and select the corresponding f-curves to the forward movement of the cg-bone and ik-bones and under modifiers there should be a cyclic modifier, set before and after to repeat with offset.

[burnin]

:yes: and as for a symphony, you look to create,
translate a movement into a dance,
make life out of a shape, animate…
suddenly all fits to a place…
whole in time.

[mediumaevum]

@Coen4d

I would leave the root-bone stationary, have 2 steps animated got to the graph editor, press “Shift E” make cyclic. than go to n panel in graph editor and select the corresponding f-curves to the forward movement of the cg-bone and ik-bones and under modifiers there should be a cyclic modifier, set before and after to repeat with offset.

Thanks.
How do I bake the modifiers into keyframes, if I need the walk to change at some point?

[Coen4d]

Just like normal, press space-bar and search for bake action.