Topic: Small leg walk cycle?
How do I do it?
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How do I do it?
You can animate legs like you would a LEGO frog: have it jump. Though, if you have the time, you can actually take a normal pair of legs, cut the middle out, and glue the two other parts together. Then you'll get a pair of 'animatable' small legs, as seen in this video of mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_-S9G1-9Gc
I know how to animate legs and I posted this because I saw your tests.(It wasn't explaned well in the comments.)
What tools do you use for cutting it?
My dad and I took a normal knife we had laying around in the workshop. Then all we did was melt the to ends (not completely) and stuck them together and let them dry.
My dad probely wouldn't let me do that.
I did a short leg walk cycle in This video.
At the start a little and the good long one at 1:40.
If you like it I can make a video showing how it's done.
Pretty ingenious, Mason.
Dam that's a good idea Mason! I reckon you should put that in the resources section if you haven't already.
I think The Twickabros made the best small walk cycle (that involves no mutilation).
It can be seen in these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HR_jDAio5I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9_XKzuQF94
assuming Ur talking about a Lego figure
If you don't what to do what Mason said simply only use the small leg for the first frame but then as the frames go on use a 1x1 slop piece and a basic 1x1, all of the same color of Lego u started off with in the first frame.
Frame 1: start off with the small pair of legs on the figure
Frame 2: put the x1 slop piece and a basic 1x1 on the figure and rotate it for each frame
Experiment with it, and see what happens
Just remember the best Animator isn't the one who know all the tricks and how to do everything but the one who asks the questions on how to do it, to improve
I did a walk in my last scene I did, I'll do a test and upload it....
I think The Twickabros made the best small walk cycle (that involves no mutilation).
It can be seen in these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HR_jDAio5I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9_XKzuQF94
I had that walk cycle in my mind exactly. And I'll get some test like that (it's pretty, pretty same).
It's genious. Look that Finnish video, I liked it so much. It's pretty same like that in up there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsuLSzIPuTI
Get one of those hollow tubes that lego makes and slide it on to a pair of regular legs's "hip" part, cut off the extra, do the same to the other side, get one of the lego claw pieces, clamp it to the tube and build your legs, hope this helped 
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