Monkey walkcycle

Mats Berglinn · Sat 30/07/2005 14:14:44

khrismuc, ok, thanks for showing me the tutorial.

dg: Well, my game is in humorous cartoon style so I'm not aiming for 100 % realism but maybe you could try to edit so that he does bend his limbs (but I don't want longer arms because I don't want to totally redesign everything I've done for Crispy so far, plus that I like Cripsy's look as he is).

Alias: Yeah, I agree with dg about the blinking. Which person or animal does blink all the time while he/she/it walks around anyway?

What a loser. · Sat 30/07/2005 15:18:18

Alive ones?

switcharoo · Sat 30/07/2005 15:44:54

Alias: A walk cycle is only two steps - one with each foot - so, in my opinion, it's best to leave out things like blinking because nobody (or monkey

) blinks every two steps... At least not that I've witnessed

Mats: I'll get on it later today.

Mats Berglinn · Sat 30/07/2005 18:26:24

QuoteAlias: A walk cycle is only two steps - one with each foot - so, in my opinion, it's best to leave out things like blinking because nobody (or monkey ) blinks every two steps... At least not that I've witnessed

That's exactly what I meant. Besides, it looks very silly to do a thing like that. Also, in the game the characters will have different kinds of expressions both on their mouths and in the eyes so you see when they're happy, sad, angry, chocked etc, so the eyes won't look be "stiff" like suits or dolls.

switcharoo · Sat 30/07/2005 21:14:35

Just got around to changing the limbs and kinda got carried away and it ended up as a swagger / strut . I can't decide if it looks good though:

calacver · Sat 30/07/2005 22:45:32

that looks really cool. He's got a nice exaggerated movement now which is what you normally want in a cartoony game. I'm glad you changed his arms and legs from the first sample, he's right arm must go forward when his right leg goes back.

It looks excellent. tail is nice too, it bends great, great realism.

I, for one, love it.

p.s. a monkey swing movement (earlier mentioned) might also have been a nice option.

Mats Berglinn · Sun 31/07/2005 09:05:22

It looks great, dg! Very great! I think I could use that in the game.

calacver: If you meant like Erwin Br. suggested about "real" monkey walk then I'm sorry to say that I'm not aiming for that since Crispy is a smart pet and not a wild monkey so that's why he walks on two legs. If you meant like swinging in trees like Tarzan or monkeys in trees, I'm sorry to say that won't appear in the game (but maybe in a possibly sequel).

switcharoo · Sun 31/07/2005 10:31:29

Quote from: calacver on Sat 30/07/2005 22:45:32
he's right arm must go forward when his right leg goes back.

I'm not quite sure what you mean

His right arm does go forward when his right leg goes back (and did in the previous versions)... Maybe I've misunderstood.

Anyway, thank you for the kind words. I'm pretty happy with it as it's the first animation I've done (that kinda showed from my previous attempts I think

)

calacver · Wed 03/08/2005 07:26:27

No, i am complementing you. That's what I mean, i'm glad you do it in your animation since the walkcycle on the first page doesn't have that.

I know you already do it, that's why i am complementing.

mats:

yeah, i like the walk your going for. Yes, i like it, i wanna play the game

switcharoo · Wed 03/08/2005 13:04:23

calacver: I thought I must have misunderstood

I've just started on the front walkcycle. I'll post it here later today or tomorrow... most likely tomorrow as it's gonna be a bitch to get right :

Mats Berglinn · Wed 03/08/2005 14:39:47

Yeah, front walkcycles are harder to do then sideways.

switcharoo · Fri 05/08/2005 16:43:51

After a lot of messing around in Photoshop and ImageReady I've come up with a half way decent front walk cycle:

Mats Berglinn · Sat 06/08/2005 08:31:34

It looks quite good but the tail seems a bit too big and the hands and the feet are too small compaired with the side veiw.

switcharoo · Sat 06/08/2005 11:45:06

Yeah I see that looking at it again... I didn't have access to the internet or the side anim for a couple of days so I was going by guesswork more than anything.

New version coming up...

Floskfinger · Sat 06/08/2005 13:17:30

I didn't have much time so I threw this together very quickly:

How about something like this? I don't really know how a real monkey moves like but this way seem a litle more natural to me atleast. I know the tail is a bit stiff and should probably move more but I didn't have the time.

Floskfinger · Sat 06/08/2005 13:22:18

Quote from: Mats Berglinn on Sun 31/07/2005 09:05:22
It looks great, dg! Very great! I think I could use that in the game.

calacver: If you meant like Erwin Br. suggested about "real" monkey walk then I'm sorry to say that I'm not aiming for that since Crispy is a smart pet and not a wild monkey so that's why he walks on two legs. If you meant like swinging in trees like Tarzan or monkeys in trees, I'm sorry to say that won't appear in the game (but maybe in a possibly sequel).

Oops! I didn't read this before I posted my edit.