Stomp Walk Cycle

Want to try this Exercise?

Start a free 7-day trial today. It's quick - and you can cancel anytime.

Watch course trailer Start your Free Trial

Stomp Walk Cycle

Heya! Login with your CG Cookie Citizen account to download Exercise files.

crew

Software:Blender 2.78 ·
Difficulty:Intermediate

Rules of the Exercise

1

Walk cycle animation is believable and appealing.
2

Submission video contains 5 loops of the animation.
3

Uses the .blend file provided.

Walk this WAAAYYYY

OVERVIEW

This exercise is designed to be an application of the information learned in Chapter 6 of the Animation Bootcamp course, specifically the Stomp Walk Cycle lessons. The assignment is to animate a believable and appealing walk cycle for the Stomp character. Since Stomp has no arms, this exercise should be a good introduction into animating character walks.

INSTRUCTIONS

Download the Stomp Walk Cycle: Source Files from the Downloads tab and open the unzipped .blend file with Blender.
Animate a walk cycle for the Stomp character.
Render your animation as an openGL viewport render loop. "Loop" means that the animation ends exactly how it begins so it can play seamlessly forever.
Loop your animation 5 times and export as a video file.
Upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo.
Finally, submit your exercise by clicking the Submit Exercise button in the top-right corner of this page and pasting your video's URL.

Heya!

Start your Free Trial

Can someone tell me why the stomp char. disappears.

4 answers · asked November 1, 2018 1:06am

Samuel Bouillon (sammsamm)
4 answers · asked November 1, 2018 1:06am

Can someone tell me why the stomp char. disappears.

Can someone tell how the stomp char. has dissapered from the scene after I have uploaded the file youtube.

4 Answers
View Answers
e

Difficulty w.antenna animation

1 answer · asked June 9, 2018 12:15pm

e

Edd Benson (eddy2hats)
1 answer · asked June 9, 2018 12:15pm

Difficulty w.antenna animation

Tldr: How do I Animate the Y-rotation without affecting the animation of the X-rotation.

Hi all,
I'm currently working on the Antenna animation at the moment. I have the X-rotation (side view) animation down, but now that I've moved on to the Y-rotation (front view) I've ran into a bit of trouble with the graph editor.
The image below shows my finished X-curve for the X-rotation animation (1):
(1)
I've noticed that when I alter the Y-rotation in the viewport, my neatly polished X-curves move as well as the Y-curves that i'm currently working on (i'm not sure if this is supposed to happen or not, I can't see why it should be as it just undoes all of the work I've done on the side view). I tried to remedy this by adjusting the Y-Curve in the graph editor, but when I do this there is no visible change to the Antenna in the viewport.

The images below show a change in the X-curve after I have rotated the antenna on the Y-axis in the viewport (2), and also the lack of visible change when I adjust the Y-curve in the graph editor (3):
(2)

(3)

Tldr: How do I Animate the Y-rotation without affecting the animation of the X-rotation.
p.s. I also deleted all the keys on the Z-rotation as I didn't think i'd be needing them. Was this the right move?

1 Answer
View Answers
j

Graph editor scale

1 answer · asked May 11, 2018 11:54pm

j

jaran
1 answer · asked May 11, 2018 11:54pm

Graph editor scale

In your stomp walking animation video you switch to the graph editor to adjust the z location of the head during the up's and downs, and you use the period key to zoom in to the z location keyframes.
When I do that I noticed the vertical scale of the z location changes to some very small number like .00000000001. Took me awhile to figure out why I could not get the figure eight by adjusting my heights of the keyframes in the graph editor, because when i adjust the keys head only goes up by a fractional amount.
How do I avoid very small scales in the graph editor or this problem in general? Sorry if I missed the answer in another video.

1 Answer
View Answers
r

Looping animation

1 answer · asked February 23, 2018 10:06am

r

Ricardo Gerbolés (ricardog)
1 answer · asked February 23, 2018 10:06am

Looping animation

Hi,
In order to have 5 walking loops I grouped all strips in Video Sequence Editor (make metastrip) and then duplicated and moved the metastrip 5 times.
Is there a smarter way to do that? I mean somewhere where you can fill the number of repetitions and let Blender do the work. I've been searching throug the VSE and didn't find anything.
Thankyou.

1 Answer
View Answers
a

Auto keyframing

3 answers · asked July 24, 2017 5:13pm

a

arjee
3 answers · asked July 24, 2017 5:13pm

Auto keyframing

I've set up my initial keying by selecting the bones that I am going to work on in the animation and clearing all the channels that I won't be using. In the screenshot I've provided, I am using Stomp's foot roll-right bone as an example. Before turning on auto key and selecting Available, I cleared all the location channels, the Y/Z rotation channels, and scale. Here is the screen shot taken just before I made a change to the X rotation on the foot roll.
Then I adjusted the foot roll so the heel would be flat on the ground in the Down key frame. Blender added all the X/Y/Z location channels, the Y/Z rotation, and X/Y/Z scale channels even though the only value I changed was the X rotation and these channels had been cleared before selecting auto key.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong here? This happens on all the bones I use and the only work around I've found is to manually add key frames to the selected channels as I'm working through the animation, which is time consuming.
Thanks for any help you can provide.

3 Answers
View Answers