Walk cycle animation test, using blender

About my first steps with Blender : a simple quadruped walk cycle.
Still a bunch of ugly sliding keys at the feet and a messed up dopesheet but wathever, next time i'll spend more time doing a more handy rig insted of rushing into animation... anyways, sometimes you have to render something.
Modeling and texturing is based on a awesome tutorial by David Ward : http://www.youtube.com/user/ward7299.
You can find this particular tutorial at ww blendercookie dot com, just type "dragon" in the search field.
For the animation, i did'nt use this tutorial but took for reference the book of Richard Williams : "The animator's survival kit".
Compositing with after effects, to show the differents aspects of the process : rig, mesh, and render.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• blender
• 3d
• animation
• walk
• cycle
• quadruped
• CG
• loop
• motion
• kiwimage

[WolfanoDelGrande]

wich music did you use?



[KiwimageArt]

@WolfanoDelGrande It's a sound from the Youtube "Audioswap" service. I wish i could tell you the artist's name but i can't find it.

[d3sertst0rm]

did you make the dragon and rig with the tutorials from blender cookie?

[KiwimageArt]

@d3sertst0rm Yes I did, I do mention it in the description. I didn't follow the animation tutorial though, since I prefered to animate it my way. I really like the tutorials by David ward.

[L1993H]

i very like the moving wings ;D

[KiwimageArt]

@L1993H thank you, glad you noticed !

[FrankDodd]

Cool work :D

[Suprem3Gamer]

hahaha it look funny, wth is with the music! Mexican ?

[d3sertst0rm]

@KiwimageArt yeah he really makes some great ones. I hope he doesn't keep making citizen only tutorials... This dragon series was one of his best free ones

[TonicVideos]

This is a perfect video!

The way you make it, the background is perfect, the music is awesome, and the walking dragon look good! Good job! :D

[33Deer33]

I love the texturing, very well done.

[imtriggerhappy9]

very nice! i like the head sway and the music ha ha its da gangsta dragon from da hood ha ha ha its awesome