Need help with 'run and attack' animation

Support Animation and Rigging
#1

Hello everyone.

I want to make an animation where character A runs towards character B and then attacks him. What is the best method for this kind of animation? My biggest problem is with the ‘run’ part i.e moving the character A.

Should I make a run cycle and make char_A follow the path and then at the end of the path animate the attack? Or should I instead animate the run part frame by frame?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

#2

I’d start with the runcycle - then take your runcycle and mod it into being an attack.

#3

If you character run on several meters only, don’t use a follow path constraint, just animate the whole thing in Pose mode, it seems more convenient, no?

#4

yep it’s only a few meters but I thought that by using the run cycle and follow path I would get better results.

#5

In this case, is it necessary to use nla or I could just continue animating at the end of the run?

#6

if it’s only few meters it would probably be easier just to duplicate and move the run cycle in Pose mode than using a Follow Path and so on

#7

I tried it and it looks like it will work for what I need. Thanks