Front view walk cycle

[3deeguy]

This was a test to see if I could use a side view walk cycle to create a front view walk cycle. It appears you can. Bone rotation from the 'side view' can be represented in the 'front view' by scaling points. You still have to choose a 'vanishing point' for it to make sense but it works pretty well.
You'll see a few problems because I still have some stuff to learn. I don't know how to correct the 'sliding' effect yet. I'm working on it and open for suggestions. There are obvious glitches which I didn't catch before I posted it but I made this only for the forum. Please tell me what you think.

[neeters_guy]

It's a good start. Some ideas here:
How to make FORWADING walk cycle more smoothly?

[3deeguy]

neeters_guy, that's a great link. I'll be making use of a lot of information in that link. Thanks.

[Little Yamori]

Looks good,

I think the slight floating effect might be lessened if you raised and lowered each leg slightly as they took their steps. I don't know if I'm explaining what I'm trying to say too well, but right now the legs are walking but not moving, if they went up and down a bit it would look more like they were actually taking steps. I like the shading effect, was that done with animating layers and fading them in and out of the cycle?

[3deeguy]

Little Yamori, The 'sliding' effect will take time for me to understand. I animated the 'ground' by translating the layer along the Z axis and cycling it. I don't know if I explained it well but the speed at which the 'ground' moved was only part of the problem.
Learning to animate is just plain fun. I actually hope I don't run out of problems to solve!
I made the shadows by filling shapes with soft edges set at 10. In the vector layers I clicked animate layer effects. I set opacity at 100 when the knee was bending and 0 when the leg was straight. For the final version I would rather have folds in the pants.

[Little Yamori]

Cool,

Thanks for letting me know. I have so much to learn as I make my way through my projects, every bit helps.

Thanks

[Danimal]

The leg movement worked well, something seemed a bit off in the way the feet moved though. I can't quite put my finger on it, it just looked "off."

[3deeguy]

Danimal, I agree, the foot movement is off. This walk cycle is not ready for prime time yet. In fact, I stopped working on the file for a couple of days. I needed to think and research. I'm going to study more video before I try again.