Topic: Minifigs Walking Down Stairs
Anyone have a good tutorial for making minifigs walk down stairs? I'm not having much luck.
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Anyone have a good tutorial for making minifigs walk down stairs? I'm not having much luck.
I haven't done this myself, but you should watch the video in this thread.
Oh, I meant these stairs.
They're more spaced out.
I won't make a tutorial for the world but LASF be looking at your gmail these next few days and I might send you my cycle for those.
I would love to see that cycle; can you post it in this thread?
Good grief, I don't know if that's possible. Given that each stair is a whole block above the last one, getting a minifig to raise their leg high enough to reach the next stair would involve them lifting their leg 90 degrees. And there's no way to make a walk cycle look natural when the minifig has to lift their leg that far.
All I can say is I hope it's not too late for you to edit your set... 
EDIT: Oh yeah, walking downstairs. It's still a huge gap, and even harder because minifig legs don't bend 90 degrees backwards.
You could always shoot from the waist up.
You could always shoot from the waist up.
That's a good idea.
Yah, I don't think that LEGO designed that piece with brickfilmers in mind. You would be better off making some stairs out of LEGO pieces (probably plates).
The set was pre made (I haven't got enough stray bricks right now to build a good house mysel f at the moment). I'm going to have to do something then about those steps Becuase the character has to go up and down me.
You could always try this:
1) Raise foot
2) Sticky-tack fig halfway between stairs with legs facing opposite directions
3) Fig on next step down, slightly elevated on studs
4) Fig both feet down on step
(That was probably very poorly explained.)
I don't quite know how far apart those steps are spaced, but I tried a test with stairs that are each one full 2x4 brick high apart earlier. I wouldn't say it came out too badly. It isn't a tutorial, but pausing the video at certain frames might help you figure out if you like what you see. Here is my test: http://youtu.be/EVbpuLIx_D0 
Last edited by elrelster (July 13, 2012 (10:05pm))
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