:)This is just a test to start learning animation with rigged objects, I made “Ludwig” do a short walk. Just for fun. Format is divx, just 400k or something…
http://www.zingg-pereira.ch/blender/walk_divx.avi
Enjoy
Very good guy.
Very good 
super duper. Close his mouth, 
But perfect walkcyckle. Where did you learn that?
this reminds of the BSoD Tutorial by ryan… I think you used it for ludwig and transferred it to him
It’s looking good but there’s still a lot of space for improvements.
Some hints you may follow
- Move the hips
- the whole body should have more up and down movement - the spine also looks very static and unnatural
- if you look at the feet you can see they seem to slap on the ground - a softer step on the ground would be better - you can achieve this by moving the toes, too!
Walkcycles can be tweaked infinetely, I have done that the last week myself
oh ya!his hands are abit too stiff too!other than that good work!
Thanks for the feedback. I just started by myself trying to understand how Ludwig is rigged and how you could make him move. Now I know there is even a “walk-o-matic” script available and all, I just wanted to know how I would do it without hints…
Yes, the hips, hands and spine can be improved a lot, but for a “learning test” I’ll leave it as is for now. I started looking at the rigging itself and ended up with a newbie tutorial, which I published here:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=81785
I found also other tuts about the same, but for lazy guys like me who want to see it “done” without reading too much, can be good…