Walk Cycle

Human walking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq9A5FD8G5w

Animated walk cycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y6aVz0Acx0

These two videos can help with my work as they show me how a real human walks and how an animated walk cycle walks. I can sample how both walk. Where the hand positions are as they walk if they swing back and forth when they walk. I can take things from both videos, for example the human walking is quite basic however I can use this and add to it when animating.

The animated walk cycle is more creative. When walking the characters fists are always in the air swinging hard backwards and forwards. The animated walk cycle character is quite heavy footed and stomps on the floor. It is more exaggerated and I can take exaggeration into my own work.

Animation walk cycle:

After I done the mini task in Matt’s lesson on researching the animated walk cycles and a human walking, I started to animate a character which Matt provided I chose to do an animation on a character which doesn’t have arms or hips as I don’t feel too comfortable in my ability to animate a character as complex as that so I chose to do a character called “Ultimate_Walker” which is a cylinder head and two legs.

This is what I have so far.

To improve this I could change the direction in which the character would walk as you don’t walk in a perfectly straight line. I could also add a bit of a buckle to his knees to make it look more realistic.