Proog Walk Cycle Tutorial
Learn how to turn a simple walk cycle into a stroll with style in this tutorial created by none other than Bassam Kurdali – director of Elephants Dream. Improve your character animation in this Blender masterclass, which makes use of genuine rigs from the movie Elephants Dream!
Walk cycles are one of the staples of 3D character animation. Yet it’s all too easy to end up with bland, robotic movements. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a walk with personality, keyframing and refining a basic movement cycle, then layering secondary animations over the top.
…The walkthrough is intended for readers who already have some familiarity with both Blender and the basic concepts of animating a walk cycle.
Here’s an OpenGL render of the walk cycle:
proog_walk.mov
- The tutorial was published in 3D World magazine (August 2006) however, it can also be downloaded, in PDF format, from here.
- Support files can be downloaded from here (ZIP ~12MB).
- AND, if that’s not enough, even more support files can be downloaded from here. You’ll find the files in the August 2006 section.
You can also check out Bassam Kurdali’s website at free_factory dot_org. The site is very young and Bassam is very busy but, I’m sure it will become a regular stop for blenderheads.
wooo hoooo!!!! another great tutorial.
Strangely enough the document has no blender cc attribution ???
what have basically changed from this walkcycle to the new method with the recoded cycling features?
Can’t wait to dig into this one! If only I were at home…
Am i the only one having trouble downloading the pdf? ive tried it 3 times and all 3 time it just stopped downloading
@ Joeri: Why would an tutorial in a commercial magazine even consider blender cc attribution?
@ greboide: Well, the new way makes animating easier and more flexible. The notes can explain much better than I ever could.
@ Noodlesgc: I had no problems other than I wasnt allowed to download more than one file at a time.
I can’t also dowload de pdf. I tried twice and stopped around 7-8 mb.
Noodlgc- it took me a long time, i just minimized it and forgot a bout it. came bakc and saw just a white screen and was about to x it out wen i loaded so be patient
Me too, I can´t download the full pdf ¡¡¡¡
have anybody got the file?