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Thanks for the comments. They provided LOL's as I read them and again later
as I remembered them during boring parts of a dinner party I went to late
Sunday afternoon. There was both good advice and lots of good-natured
ribbing.
THE WALK: it's interesting that when I broke out Muybridge
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486202046/) and compared those
rotoscopes to my walk cycle, I found that the main problem was with the
arms. Or at least with more natural arm movements I radically altered the
cycle to eliminate the hurried-walk-to-the-loo effect. I could have a
tough-guy-prowl or a easy-going-goof with just small changes to the hand
positions. Changing the look and feel, the "straight-linedness" of the
*leg* movement, however, will be a task for another month, unless someone
has more highly specific criticisms. The one defect I know of is that both
the heel and metatarsal (or "toe ball" as I call it) land at exactly the
same time. Real people often place the heel down first. With the geometry
of my figure, it is a *real* math headache to get this to happen (and not
have th foot break the plane of ground!).
THE COSTUME: Yeah, I don't like it either, but I found the other patterns I
was trying were even more hideous. I suppose there's not much value after
all for a "pattern-based costume on a blob."
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"Greg M. Johnson" <gregj:-)565### [at] aol com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the comments. They provided LOL's as I read them and again later
> as I remembered them during boring parts of a dinner party I went to late
> Sunday afternoon. There was both good advice and lots of good-natured
> ribbing.
>
> THE WALK: it's interesting that when I broke out Muybridge
> (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486202046/) and compared those
[snip]
I found another book listed on the same page as your link and remembered, having
read a tute by him once. I found it here.
http://www.rubberbug.com/walking.htm
You may already know about it, but I thought I'd pass it along in case you were
interested.
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