[Bf-animsys] Need feedback about a simple walk cycle helper

[Jonatan Bijl]

Thanks for your work on the plugin. I have an idea for something that could be helpful.

What I find tricky when animating a walk cycle, is preventing a sliding-feet / moonwalking  movement.

I currently work-around this problem, by animating a movement of the root bone, for the distance of two strides. Then I animate the walking, and can easily see if the feet are sliding or not. After that, I remove the root bone animation again.

Another solution could be that a plugin would use stride length and stride duration as input to show "footprint" helper objects, or zebra-crossing-stripes, to show the walking-speed to the animator.

I think this kind of feature would be very helpful.


Jonatan

-----Original Message-----
From: bf-animsys-bounces at blender.org [mailto:bf-animsys-bounces at blender.org] On Behalf Of Gaia
Sent: zondag 10 augustus 2014 12:20
To: Discussion list to assist 2.5 animation recode
Subject: [Bf-animsys] Need feedback about a simple walk cycle helper

Hi;

Recently i needed a simple walk cycle for testing the weighting of a character. So i learned how to make basic walk cycles.
However after an hour of playing with the concepts i thought, why not making a small helper tool for this?
And i ended with this:

http://blog.machinimatrix.org/sparkles/walk-cycle-helper/

This tool works for me. But maybe it can be made more useful even.
So if you are missing something that would fit well into this tool, then i am all ears :)

Thanks for any feedback on this!
cheers,
Gaia
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