Chris Allison did one. David Gemill did one. Now for the first time in about four years I've gotten off my butt and ruffed out a little walk cycle on an animation program I just started tinkering with. I am not fully up to speed with the software yet, but gradually I hope to do more.
Check out Clio's squishy leetle animal combat choreography at her site too. It's a freakin' 2D epidemic!
BTW, does anyone know how to get one of these BLOGGER movies to loop? This one conveniently ends on a breakdown where I forgot to inbetween the hair. Somewhere Nik Rainieri is smirking.
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Aw, yours is the most natural looking =)
Great cycle! What's the software you are using?
Nice walk cycle, Will! I like the subtle secondary action on the ears, how it moves in relation to the rest of the body. How long did it take you to cobble this up, & with what program?
As for the looping thing, as far as I know I don't think blogger can do that. If you really wanted to, you could record the cycle for a longer period of time (15 secs... 30 secs...?) & post that. That's what I did when I posted my walkcycles on Blogger a few months back.
I believe there are video/media players that can loop footage out there, but you gotta upload the videos on their website, kinda like Youtube or Dailymotion. Sorry if that doesn't help much.
I just LOVE the way you draw, man!
You make it look so easy!
Alright! I like it. What kind of animtion program did you use?
Now I wanna go try and animate something.
thanks everybody for the nice feedback. next time i will loop the scene longer for better effect.
i am using DigiCel Flipbook (MAC version), but i did the line art on my PC tablet in Alias Sketchbook and then imported them via USB hub. This way I was able to break the figure up into four levels (Legs, Body&Head, Ear, Arm&Hair). I only attacked one level per sitting with lots of days inbetween. unfortunately i don't have tons of spare time right now.
I had to do the coloring with on a touchpad, which isn't optimal for me. I am hoping to get a modbook at some point soon and do everything on one Mac.
Is Alias Sketchbook good for animation? I thought it was just a program for single drawings.
What I wanna know is: did you make a rough pass, then clean it up? Or do you go straight into this line quality? Great cycle, Will! WTF!
Andy--
DIGICEL FLIPBOOK is the actual animation software and it has everything i have been looking for in a digital 2-d setup. You should check out their website, I know lots of big-shot pros who use it.
http://www.digicelinc.com/
Alias Sketchbook is NOT an animation program.
Right now though i have a kind of skewed setup and it is more comfortable for me to make individual drawings in sketchbook and then import them to digicel. Ultimately when i get all my hardware issues settled I plan to do everything in FlipBook.
Thanks Will, much appreciated!
chris, this is very rough, with no clean up. i drew the line art in sketchbook, using my own idiosyncratic method, but if this was actual pencil on paper, i would have made another pass before going to color.
Which version of DigiCel Flipbook? Lite, Studio or Pro? I remember this program from years back, I'd love to try it out finally.
Chris
-this was done with FLIPBOOK STUDIO. The ability to use multiple levels was a huge plus. i have only scratched the surface of what's possible with it though.
That looks so damn good!
B.
Don't get a modbook, wait two months and get a macbook touch: http://gizmodo.com/5027706/rumor-macbook-touch-coming-in-october
I like flipbook too, I just wish their documentation and support was better. I recently found out that I was using an outdated version of the program because they never posted on their website/emailed/anything to say that the program was updated. And don't get me started on the hotkeys...
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