Advance Animation: Project 1

27/05/2024 – 10/06/2024

Name: Joan Chiam Zi Woei 

Student ID: 0350211

Advanced Animation

Project 1: Walk Cycle Animation

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Instructions:

Module Information Booklet

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Project 1: Walk Cycle Animation

Our task is to create both a vanilla walk cycle and an attitude walk, while also identifying the key poses for contact, passing, down, and up.

Vanilla Walk Cycle

A vanilla walk cycle is a basic animation sequence that illustrates the motion of a character walking. It's a fundamental element in animation, serving as a foundation for more complex sequences involving walking or running characters.

For this project, I used Snow, the character rig from Blender. I started by keyframing the contact poses, followed by the passing pose, and then the down and up poses. We went through vanilla walk in class so that was easier to do with the teaching provided. 

Fig 1.0 Process of vanilla walk

Attitude walk cycle

Moving on to the attitude walk was a bit smoother thanks to the experience I gained from the vanilla walk cycle. However, one of the challenges remained which is to ensure that the shoulders moved naturally and that the hips had a realistic swing. To enhance my understanding and fine-tune the animation, I consulted a YouTube tutorial that provided valuable insights on how to properly animate a walk cycle.

After going through different attitude, I chose anger for my attitude walk.

Fig 1.1 Reference anger attitude walk

I started with keying down the poses.

Fig 1.2 Process of keyframing walking

While I'm at it, I also move forward his neck to make him look more angry as well as giving angry expression.

Fig 1.3 Adding details

With the walk cycle done, I stage the background and adjusted the lighting.

Fig 1.4 Staging background

Final Walk Cycle Compilation

Fig 2.0 Finished Vanilla and Attitude Walk Cycle