Robotic character walk cycle

[Heath_Naylor]

Here it is. There is no showcase thread anymore... Odd. Seeing as he is not done I will put him here.

 

Walk And Wave - NEW!

Walk Cycle Animation

 

What do you guys think?

[Luuk Steitner]

Are you sure that link is correct? I don't see an animation like you describe.

[Nunsofamerica]

I couldn't find it there either, but I saw it on youtube today

[Heath_Naylor]

Yeah, it is there now, try again. Sorry.

[frosteternal]

Here it is. There is no showcase thread anymore... Odd. Seeing as he is not done I will put him here.

 

Walk Cycle Animation

 

What do you guys think?

 

Cute.

I like how he falls over at the end.

Nice music; he seems to be "power-walking" to it.

No real critiques here.

[robcat2075]

Cute stuff!

 

I like the floppy arms.

 

He doesn't seem to be in sync with the DJ though...

[Heath_Naylor]

Yeah, I was trying to sync it up with music, but some parts were on others were off. Gave up on that, figured I'd let the animation speak for itself. Still working on this character, giving him a mouth. Not sure what to do for the mouth poses.

[mfortunato]

Hi Heath -

 

Great character design. The animation is fluid and looks perfectly suited to the character. Very whimsical. Would make a perfect fit in Futurama - he could take Bender on! .

 

- Michael

[nimblepix]

Nice job Heath!

I watched it with the sound off.

Very fluid and natural.

 

He looks like a friendly robot.

Kinda Gomer Pyle like.

[Heath_Naylor]

Thanks for the comments guys. I tweaked him some more and added a mouth. Let me know what you think.

 

Walk And Wave

[MattWBradbury]

The Dixie Chicks have taken the place of your video for some reason. You might want to check that out.

 

Bender could take a million of those robots on. He would make his own Fighting Arena, with Black Jack, and Hookers. Forget the Fighting Arena.

 

[Heath_Naylor]

The Dixie Chicks have taken the place of your video for some reason. You might want to check that out.

 

Bender could take a million of those robots on. He would make his own Fighting Arena, with Black Jack, and Hookers. Forget the Fighting Arena.

 

 

It seems my video has been going live for seven hours... It should be up shortly... I think.

[Heath_Naylor]

All right guys, the video is UP! Sorry for the confussion.

 

Walk And Wave

 

Let me know what you think.

[nimblepix]

I think it's just right.

No criticisms.

[Heath_Naylor]

Horrible News. My file got corrupt, AM randomly crashed and now anytime I try to open the file it crashes. Anyone got a fix, I will start working on new robot, any suggested improvements?

 

EDIT:

He's OK! I have remodeled him, like this one better anyways.

[nf1nk]

Sometimes with corrupt animation master files, you can open them with a text editor, and if you have an eye for detail find what is horribly wrong and fix it.

This is both frustrating and difficult. I have done it a few times with older versions of the software (8.5 to version 10), but since it became much more stable (thank you programmers) I haven't needed to do it again. Also I started backing up my work on a regular basis.

Mostly you have learned a valuable lesson in backing up your work.

Other file advise is to save all models as their own file if you care about them, ditto actions and Choreography's.

[Heath_Naylor]

Yeah, I have 15 save files of him now from start to finish, the final is saved on my computer, over the network on my other computer, over the network on my brothers computer, and on my flash drive. I emailed it to myself as well. So I have him for good. I tweaked him a bit more and posed him, what do you think?

[nimblepix]

Still good.

Not sure about that space behind his eyes though.