the way he walks is... uh... scary, it creeps me out.  Dang I shouldn't
have watched that before I go to bed here, I just know I'm going to
dream about that guy...

:)

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Well, this is one of your best animations so far in my opinion. :)

I still think the walk cycle needs some improvement though, and the
clothes could also need a more regular look.

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"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> Blob man.
>     procedural texture for costume and "skin color" on "same blob."
>     fixed chest & leg muscles
>     micro tweaks to lessen dorkiness of walk cycle (need to break out my
> Muybridge, I guess)
> 

That guy walks so straight that i wonder what happens if you place on of
the trees just in the line of his path... ;-)

It looks a bit like those walking competitions at the olympic games.

Christoph

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nice ...

nevertheless:
reminds me of someone who is abut (or already has) p*ssed in his clothes ;) ....

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you could really do with some motion capture data (or failing that, try
rotoscoping)




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He ate some bad apples and now he's about to make his pants very dirty.

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> It looks a bit like those walking competitions at the olympic games.
Exactly!

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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] aolcom> 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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#end#macro B(R,V,O)c(0,4)intersection{c(V,R)difference{c(-z*4x+10)c(-z*4.1x+
10)c(0<7.5,45,5>)}}#end B(12,0z*25)B(8y*4<0,12,50>)          // Batronyx ^"^

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"Batronyx" <bat### [at] alliancecablenet> wrote in message
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> http://www.rubberbug.com/walking.htm
>

Thanks, I have  Dig  Char Anim I & II. But seeing it in html is extra
helpful.

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