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Old 04-26-2005, 01:34 PM   #11
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He looks as if he's walking backwards. I've been trying to figue out why, but I'm not a skilled animator myself either (yet ), but I have a guess: I think it's beacuse the leg is moving slower when moving forward than when moving back. His left leg in particular. (And looking back at this thread, I see that Stinger already commented on that foot.)

One thought I read in an animation tutorial that I've found to be helpful is to "think of the walk as a controlled falling". Think about that one for a while, and it'll make sense. (It was either in that one linked to by Jezze, which is a very good one, or in a book on animation.) It'll still be hard to get the walk right, though.

Fixing the camel-walk helped, btw. (Camels are AFAIK the only animals that walk like that. I know a word for it in Swedish, but not in English.) It looks better now.

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Aaargh! (Sorry, but it's not exactly the best tool for the job.)
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