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it's very hard for me to do walking sequinces for some reason. in this thread please tell me
A) how many steps there are in your common move
B)what are they (links to videos with them would be nice)
C)how do you do running
D)how do you do bent over running (for example a head butt)
please comment
Last edited by aslymfilms (February 14, 2009 (06:07am))
thank you both so much it's looking a million times better special thanks to magicoflego it looks awsome
Behold, the magic of Brickhelp
Recommended, that helped me with walking a lot.
I used to do 2 frame walk. That taught me the nice 4 frame, and my current 6 frame, which is a beauty.
thank you fib12345 i'll test it out
and my current 6 frame, which is a beauty.
I use a five frame walk and it comes out quite smooth.
ok
I just use 3 frame walk and it doesn't look to bad.
I just use 3 frame walk and it doesn't look to bad.
Wait... three frame walk? I think you should use 4 at least.
i use 4
I swap between 4, 5 and 7 frame walk cycles, which makes it a lot harder to sync with the walking sound effects in post.
I swap between 4, 5 and 7 frame walk cycles, which makes it a lot harder to sync with the walking sound effects in post.
7?! That's the first time I've heard somebody using a 7 frame walk cycle.
same i've heard of 6 and 8 but no 7
Can't say I've heard of an 8 frame, either. That would be a nightmare to shoot.
My solution to walking was to buy 8 identical minifigs from bricklink.com. I very carefully posed each minifig in the eight cycle walking positions. I made a test animation to get the positions just right. After that animation was nothing more than pulling one minifig up, and dropping the next one in place. I keep my duplicates in a egg carton all numbered. On the botton of each foot was a number as well.
This solution is a bit expensive, but it is a huge help when doing long walking scenes as in "Nina in No Limits" where a minifig walked the lenght of 3 large gray base plates. As it was it took me a full day to animate.
That's genius! It would save so much time and produce consistent results! Great tip 
NXTManiac
seriously
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