3D Character Animation: Three-legged Walk Cycle Turntable

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This is a turn table three-legged walk cycle animation test of the 3D character NineOh™ (0090™). The primary purpose of this test was to explore how such a three-legged character might walk and to rig and refine the 3D character for full body animation. He's on a turntable so that I could see the moving character from all angles. Another goal of the test was to verify that motion would help the disconnected floating parts hold together and form a cohesive character in the viewer's mind.

LightWave 3D 9.3.1 UB was used for the nodal texturing, lighting (including a spinning light rig & backdrop radiosity), IK Booster Rigging, Animation and Rendering. The character was modeled in modo 3.01. It was all done on an 8-core 3GHz Mac Pro dual processor quad core Intel Xeon.

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Telebites
• 3D
• animation
• three-legged
• walk
• cycle
• IK
• Booster
• rigging
• turntable
• DreamLight

[bookac]

rayman style.. love it :)

[SherdebHan]

!!! perfect !!!

[Subrosa01dA]

That's clever.

[msnaruka1]

Cooooooooooooool Nice da WAlk N da Character to

[Vikinatorn]

Jake thee peg.. Dididilididlong with an extra leg... really nice.

[BaloneyX]

Reminds me of Toejam from the good old Toejam and Earl games

[rubikssolver08]

whats it called

[kirnis05]

Did you rendered this animation on a mac ?

[croat88]

Alright! He looks good.