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Crazy Bob Animation
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Crazy Bob Animation // Work in Progress
Post by frootee // Jul 27, 2007, 4:39am
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Hi 3dfrog. That looks better.
The arm motion looks smooth.
The one thing I would suggest improving is the up and down bobbing. If you could decrease the bob by about 25% it would look considerably more natural.
Also, the bob effect seems to be a little more noticeable when the left leg in front, giving the effect of a limp.
Check out this link for an excellent walk cycle:
http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLwalker.html
Making really good progress here 3dfrog.
Froo |
Post by 3dfrog // Jul 27, 2007, 1:11pm
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Well the attached movie is the final of this walk cycle because truespace crashed and corrupted my scene file so now it is blank. I made the bop very subtle here. I think he looks better. I am pretty happy with this one. |
Post by frootee // Jul 27, 2007, 1:17pm
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MUCH Better! That looks really good 3dfrog. Sorry your file got corrupted though. Seems you've had this happen several times. Have to checked your hard drive, running scandisk and chkdsk? You may have some corrupt sectors. I haven't seen problems like this from other folks yet; just wondering.
I know this is the finished product, but the one thing I would suggest is adjusting the gait, as mentioned previously.
Looks really good!
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Post by 3dvisuals dude // Jul 27, 2007, 7:50pm
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Well the attached movie is the final of this walk cycle because truespace crashed and corrupted my scene file so now it is blank. I made the bop very subtle here. I think he looks better. I am pretty happy with this one.
Excellent!
This looks very smooth, you got it down perfectly it seems to me.:)
See my response in the "Bugs" area of the forums here about the crash-corrupted file, this has happened to me on a few occasions too so you're definitely not alone. That particular problem of crashing while saving is not unique to trueSpace by any means either... I have an older version (4.03) of Poser which does this constantly.
That response of mine in the other thread though just may help you a lot with this kind of problem and may even lead to recovery of that particular file's earlier version, if any existed that is.
Well done on the walk cycle... what's next?:D
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Post by 3dfrog // Jul 28, 2007, 2:01am
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Thanks Guys
That file wasn't in the recycle bin even though I hadn't emptied it in a while. Oh well. I should have known to save incremental files. This sort of thing happens in a lot of 3d software so I should know better. It's not like it's a major project so it's ok in this case. At least I got to render it out before I lost it.
Next I am going to do variations on walk cycles. I want to do some modeling too. |
Post by 3dvisuals dude // Jul 28, 2007, 2:22am
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Thanks Guys
That file wasn't in the recycle bin even though I hadn't emptied it in a while. Oh well. I should have known to save incremental files. This sort of thing happens in a lot of 3d software so I should know better. It's not like it's a major project so it's ok in this case. At least I got to render it out before I lost it.
Next I am going to do variations on walk cycles. I want to do some modeling too.
Cool. (well, not about the lost file...)
One thing I'd love to see you guys try with these walk cycles is a guy on a skateboard... might be a major challenge though, the more I think about it. Sure would be cool to keyframe a model of a guy on a skateboard and use the animation as an Avatar action in truePlaces though.:D
Just a thought.;)
- 3dvisuals dude |
Post by oroe // Aug 8, 2007, 6:59am
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Well the attached movie is the final of this walk cycle because truespace crashed and corrupted my scene file so now it is blank. I made the bop very subtle here. I think he looks better. I am pretty happy with this one.
YES!!!
The best Bob walk result I've seen so far!
very good work
Oliver |
Post by nick // Aug 8, 2007, 12:06pm
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Really love the final version of your walking Crazy Bob, although I looooved the rushing one - it has it's own style :)
So you see - Crazy Bob is crazy, and he is a cartoon.
He must move strange :):p
So now what - Michael Flatley's "Lord of the dance"? :D :D |
Post by 3dfrog // Sep 17, 2007, 6:53am
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I was trying to reproduce a bug to send to Caligari so I was making this little cycle. And of course since I wanted the bug to happen it wouldn't this time lol. Anyway, I got a nice little marching walk out of him trying to do the bug.
Edit: Ugh I just realized the wmv skips some frames and makes it jump for some reaon. I'll figure it out.
Edit again: I don't know why wmv format is disregarding the last frames. I tried in movie maker and camtasia and it doesnt work. Here is a link to a quicktime movie of it:
http://www.3dfrog.com/wips/forums/walk.mov
Quicktime is much better than windows player I think. Windows player works very bad for me. I wish we could put mov on the forum attachments. |
Post by frootee // Sep 17, 2007, 7:23am
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that looks pretty good there 3dfrog! Makes me think:
'we're off to see the Wizard... the wonderful Wizard of Oz'!
That kind of rythm.
Froo T. |
Post by Emma // Sep 17, 2007, 7:24am
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I wish we could put mov on the forum attachments
There is a trick which I used already several times, asks for a little support action the user has to do before enjoying an attachement
Make your mov file and rename it to something like mymovie_CHANGEwmvTO_MOV.wmv
and add an additional remark to the text so noone can say he/she didn't see it |
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