By Eric Huang and Ernie Wu - CSE 459 - Winter 2008

Motion Assignment 2: Personality Walk Cycle

Cse459 Preproduction for Digital Animation

Assignment: Personality Walk Cycle
Due Date: Wednesday, Jan 23 11:59pm

Part 1: Walk Cycle with Personality

• 
  
  Download the Hogan character.
  
  OR
  
  
  Download the Basic Guy character
  
  OR
  
  
  
  Download the Sam character
  
  Looking for the ball character?
  Download the Lt.Dan character.
  
  
• Planning sheets and video reference are a MUST! View Examples Here
• Complete a walkcycle with some personality (happy/sad/angry/pompous/devious?).

Turn-in

HW1 Part 1: non-Stationary Walk Cycle with Personality

• Reference video(s).
• Planning sheets in JPG form.
• Turn in 3 playblasts: one from the side camera, one from the front camera, and one from a clear perpective camera.
• Maya Asc/Binary file.

HW1 Part 2: Planning Sheet for Jump

• Prepare a planning sheet of a person jumping (standing at the start) in-place to another point. He/she should also end standing in-place.
• Planning sheet(s) in JPG form.

Grading Criteria

HW1 Part 1: non-Stationary Walk Cycle with Personality

• Fluidity in motion (no jerks, abrupt stops and pops)
• Nice motion paths/arcs
• Demonstration of ease-in ease-out (the feet)
• Overlapping motion (the hips shouldn't move exactly in-sync with the feet)

Useful Links

Please have a look! :)

2d Animation software!
http://www.plasticanimationpaper.dk/

Awesome walk cycles as examples:

\\preproduction\walk cycle examples

Understanding the graph editor by Victor Navone (A pixar animator):

Spline Tutorial 1 Spline Tutorial 2

Descriptive explanations of the principles:

Animation Principles

Another walk cycle tutorial:

Walk Cycle Tutorial