Week 7: Walk Cycle Animation

Introduction

After getting feedback on the planning of our walk cycle animation, we started animating the rig.

My first animation did not go as planned because I accidentally animated the master controller of the rig.

For this reason, it looks as it the character is sliding instead of walking.

Even though my second attempt looks better than my first one, the feet of my character are still sliding.

I definitely need to keep working on keeping the feet on the ground.

For my third animation, I got rid of the stretch and squash deformation in order to focus on the position of the feet.

I can say that I already have the key poses of my character and it is time to change the animation into spline.

In order to change the animation from blocking into spline, I had to edit the values on the graph editor.

What caught my attention was that the feet were sinking into the ground during the contact positions.

For this reason, I am going to need to fix the foot and toe rotation of my character.

The walk cycle is finally looking much better.

Nonetheless, I was pointed out that I need to adjust the number of frames during the foot rotation.