How to... running/walking cycles

How do I create walking/running figures that look like nothing is holding them up? By popular request, I spill my secrets!

figure stands available at:

http://www.elitebrigade.com/

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Film & Animation

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• animation
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• GI
• Joe
• action
• figure
• stop
• motion
• robot
• chicken
• photoshop
• flash
• tutorial

[TheGhostOfPainsey]

thanks mate but i dont use photoshop, time to get G.I.M.P.started up

[huttwigley]

@TheGhostOfPainsey The gimp's sleepin'...

[Honestinwilkesbarre]

1- Why don't you use tie-downs?

2- Your method would probably be faster and easier in a NLE like Sony Vegas Pro, Premiere Pro, the freeware Wax 2.0 or the newly open sourced Lightwave. Same idea, but you'd use a single mask and animate the shape and size of that mask using key-frames.

[huttwigley]

@Honestinwilkesbarre 1- Do you have a resource available that could explain what you mean by "tie-downs" and how to use them? 2- I don't have Sony Vegas Pro, the freeware Wax 2.0 or the newly open sourced Lightwave. I have Premiere CS3, but it runs REALLY slow on my 5-year-old PC so I use the methods I've developed for myself and made this video about 3 years ago to explain the process to anyone who might find it useful.

[Pedr6500]

To any one who doesnt want to spend the money on photoshop

you can do this in MS paint and i wiil show a tutorial another time

[huttwigley]

@Pedr6500 Please! Do that! I'd be interested!

[samroshan]

Wow! This was really nice.. I was also expecting to see How to actually do a Walk Animation. Specially the number of frames involved with each movement. Eg: When you say 40 frame, how are they divided in each walk cycle (not sure if I am explaining it right) I hope you got my question.. wil now check out ur other videos :)

[rosemaks]

what jumping stop motion and gun fx aslo awsome stop motion

[rosemaks]

what jumping stop motion and gun fx

[rosemaks]

what jumping stop motion

[demmylowther]

Fantastic ! I thought I had nerves of steel when I built a 1/24 scale car model and added spark plug wires,installed grain of wheat light bulbs to the interior,and the head lights,and added flocking to simulate real carpet.That was kids play compared to this.I'm 48 and no longer have the patience,or time like I did when I was younger,working/managing a hobbyshop.Their are very few people in the world who know how to do this.

[13thBear]

Sorry for being a late-comer, but I just found your site and watched this video. Nice work, Hutt, and thanks. I was curious how animation was done and you did a good job explaining it! Obviously you have made a TON of videos, and I'll watch more another day. Cool work and keep going!