I'm having some trouble with this one. I'm not understanding the math behind the feet. When I pose it and get it where I want, the foot bone has this crazy 4 decimal number for the location, and the front foot is a different distance then the back one. I have the walk blocked out in place, but am not sure how to get him moving. Am I over thinking it?
Usually when I ask myself “am I over thinking this” the answer is always “Yes!” haha.
Have you done the Stomp walk yet? I can’t remember if I have seen it or not.
This one is just a little more complicated because the feet stick on the ground (when planted) and the torso moves forward. There is several ways to figure out the distance, and there can be a little back and forth until you have it working nicely (expect to get it a little wrong the first few times - but then you will figure it out.)
The easiest way for you to get your head around it might be to work backwards from the passing position to the contact. That will be half a cycle (6 frames - a walk is usually around 12 frames per step). The Torso should be linear so once you know how far the distance it moves over this 6 frames, you can then calculate it over any amount of frames. The back and forth will come when you realise that the leg can’t stretch that far backward as you need it to which means your step has to be slightly smaller.
But all these things are part of your learning. Making mistakes and learning from them makes you better at animation....as long as you learn from the mistakes that is haha.
Hope that helps.
For sure! I'll try it! I did the Stomp walk cycle, I might have to go back and watch the lessons again, just as a refresher. I did that one while I was watching the video. I'm trying to do this one after watching the video, to see if I can remember all the steps.
I have him moving but now his feet gradually spread out across the x axis...