Above is my finished walk cycle. After researching and looking at many guides on how to create the walk cycle I am happy with my result. I started first by drawing the body and legs and drawing the key frames. Afer this I began putting some frames in-between to create a smoother walk cycle. I really wanted my character to have a tall and skinny build to give him a strange feature to him physically. My character has OCD and I wanted to highlight this further through his clothes and his build. In addition I have made his legs bendy and flexible rather than with two limbs to give the walk cycle an extra smoothness (make him look as though he is gliding - extra perfection for his OCD side.) The second figure shows that I then added a head and arms - i decided to keep it simple and put the arms in his pockets rather than have them swinging (like I originally planned) this was mainly down to time however looking back, I feel that it makes him look more neater (again connecting back to the OCD.) Lastly, I then added the main outline and coloured it in (I went for a neat outline to make it more clean.) The clothes that he is wearing are to resemble the road which expresses his obsession and his subconscious mind.
After creating my walk cycle I made it into a symbol and then create a classic tween in order to give the illusion that the character is walking from one side of the scene to the next. At first I had a little trouble when using this (as i forgot to extend the symbol out for it to animate) however I got some help and it was easily sorted. After making my character move I wanted to add sound to the bring the character and its surroundings to life. By using Premiere Pro I was able to remove the sound off of a video I had filmed of my location during my visit. When I was filming I was able to capture the sounds of footsteps really well and have decided to use this in my final animation. Above is an experiment of using this sound. I was able to put the audio and the video together in premiere Pro - By adding the sound we get a very strong feeling of the area that the character is in (even without having a background.) I feel that this sound works very well, it will just need to be edited into the right footing and will sound very good.
hi alice, i love you r walk cycle..how did you do it exactly because we haven't been taught how to do this, is it hand drawn or on the computer and how did u add in detail and colour without creating a new animation?? thanks connie x
ReplyDeleteThank you so much. I'm so sorry that this is very late reply. Well this was all created digitally in Adobe Flash.I have a graphics tablet that i draw with. I first created a layer where I drew out a rough idea of how I wanted the character to move. I then drew the finished outline over the rough guide. After this I made a new layer underneath the outline. Here I added colour and drew in the detail. It was really simple - if i wanted too add detail I would zoom in closer. Because most of the detail was on the face and body i didn't need to change it so just copied this section. The legs was the most difficult.
DeleteIf you don't have the program you can of course practice using traditional method - it is only around 12 frames. So really simple. Just google walk cycles and they will give you guide. I Hope this is okay :D need anymore help or any other questions just ask ;) Thanks for checking out my blog.