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SaphireNishi — walk cycle 07
Published: 2013-02-24 18:13:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 25829; Favourites: 195; Downloads: 1933
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and an other attempt to make a walk cycles from scratch.. this time with motion blurring but that created a big problem on the hair now.. that would be the next thing to figure out how to fix now..
489 frames @ 1280x540 pixels
total render time: 6 hours 42 minutes 18 seconds (50 seconds average per frame)
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i`ll never ride my bike again wwhaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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lol.. to much snow outside for the bike anyways.. hooray for the heated cars
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yeah you can drive me around instead. and when you pop out to pay for petrol, i can steal it like you did my bike!! Mmmwhahaha
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haha.. my car is voice controlled.. so if you wanna steal my car you need to steal my voice too.. otherwise you wont be able to start the car
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i`m a great mimic. **squeaky dutch voice** start engine! *nothing*
**husky dutch voice** start engine! *nothing*
**gruff dutch voice** start engine! *nothing*
i could go on but you get the idea. ( ahem )
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thanks, babes.. slowly but surely we are getting somewhere now
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idk if you noticed but theres a lack of gravity on her body when she walks. the bones dont move that way unless the person is forcing themselves to walk that way and even then im surprised she isnt falling backwards
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i know.. the problem is projecting the correct movement on the body.. pointing it out is easy.. actually making it to work is the hard part.. its way i keep practicing on them now..
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Ah i see, now i feel like a jerk >_< lol.
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I actually was just thinking about your walk cycles wow
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hehe.. thank you.. here is the new attempt again
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Also since several people are saying sideview doesn't look smooth, it's their computer/browser, it's perfectly normal for me.
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it runs smooth here too.. so yeah, i think its either the pc or the browser people use that is causing the problem...
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Very good, big improvement! The knees are still with the joint a little high and centralized inside. You can take a bit of movement of the belly and hips to move. Otherwise, it is merely a matter of style.
Keep it up, congratulations!
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im not really sure what you mean.. but thank you for the feedback anyways...
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I'm brazilian, never studed english, and we use a lot of forms that make no sense in others languages. I've studed Maya for 3 years, and I think that the walk cicle looks a little strang because of the knee joint, it looks is a little high in the leg, try put it a little down (or post a wireframe with the joints and skelekton to help us to help you).
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well there is a lot wrong with the anatomy of the body but i dont think the knee height is wrong.. im not really sure how it would help to see the bone movement instead of the actually mesh movement either.. its the mesh movement that is important here.. the bones are just controllers of the mesh.. but its the end effect that counts.. how does the actually step look.. what happens when the the spline when we walk.. thats way more important i think...
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My girlfriend helped me to look, and maybe what is given me the impression that knee is to high may be the texture. From the side view, when the leg bends, becomes a little more thin, and from the front, theres some kind of distorcion, right above the knees. I had a problem similar on a animmation for a test some months ago, the joints where deforming the mesh and I took hours to find the problem, but it was on Maya, not on 3dmax.
Another point that looks a little wrong is the right foot on the side walk. I had a problem to make the foot touch the ground on the right point, the joint tool maked some crazy spins and not helped at all, I (and my girlfriend) had to doo all the frames at hand. I dont know if the foot had some joint animation problem or was just a accident, but may help if she dont step so angled. She is steping with the front leg tottaly Stretched, try to put the body more forward, and the foot that touches the ground with the leg slightly bent, will give a more natural look.
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thank you very much for the feedback
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You're welcome. I not working with 3d animation now, but I still liking, so it's always a pleasure help.
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is it just on my PC, or does the sideways view not run quite smoothly?
Also, her spine seems unnaturally curved.
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it looks very smooth on my screen..
what would be a normal curve for the spine ?
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it looks smooth now... guess I was having an odd playback issue.
as for the spine... right now saph is looking like she's suffering from hyperlordosis (just google it).
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well i can see there is something wrong where her back.. but the problem is fixing it.. what i need to figure out is how a spline reacts when we are walking.. thats the problem now.. i dont really have to know what hyperlordosis is.. so my question still stands.. what would be a normal curve when we are walking.. there is not a lot of info i can find about it.. if you know anything then that would be helpful to share..
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I don't really know much beyond what google can find you in 30 seconds...
I suppose the best thing to do might be to go on youtube and look up a few models walking on the runway to study how they look and move.
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haha.. so smart.. thank you very much for pointing out the most obvious thing ever 
please understand that making a walk cycle is one of the hardest things to get right.. it takes animators years to be able to make a perfect walk cycle.. this is my 7th attempt.. so i still have along way to go.. what i actually need to learn is how the human body reacts when preforming certain actions.. and then projects the right movements onto a 3d model.. its really hard to create a convincing pose when doing still renders.. but when doing animations it bring the difficulty level to whole new height..
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very nice! the way you have the feet pick up before step and plant after is very realistic! huge improvement.
and that outfit...what a tease...
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thank you so much.. i figured out how to do the feet now.. the trick is to have two pivot points on her feet and not just one like i used in all the previous ones.. it makes life so much easier this way..
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Hmm. I should consider doing that too, I did a walk cycle recently for my group project and even for only two short steps it looked horrible. Got even worse when my director asked me to fix it using a different method that conflicted with the animation I already used. So now in order to finish it on time i have to improvise.
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damn.. i hope you find a solution which doesnt mean you have to do a lot of work all over again..
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need to practice some more, it doesn't look natural, again it's like she's clenching a stick with her butt-cheecks
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hehe.. i need a lot more practice.. people take years to master a simple walk cycles.. this is my 7th attempt.. so yeah, i still got some more practice time ahead..
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haha.. i think you are missing the point.. but i will..
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hahahaha sorry I'm kinda disperse
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Getting better and better 
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check my reply to another post
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