Reference photos (walkcycles)

Ozwalled · Sun 04/04/2004 08:36:58

First, I appologize if this has been asked/ answered before...

I was wondering if any of you know of any good sites on the web with photos of people (or fairly accurately proportioned drawings/ paintings or whatever) that I could use as references/ visual aids for drawing characters in games. I'm specifically looking for pictures that one could more or less string together to make a walk cycle (preferrably for forawd, back and left/right animations).

I aware of resources like some of the Keptosh open source stuff, as well as all of the RON resources, but I'm looking for something that's a lot more realistic in a proportional sense.

Also, I have been looking around through Google and unfortunatly, haven't come up with much that suited my needs.

Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer.

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I *DID* however, find this somewhat nifty link. I don't expect anyone to swipe the pictures altogether (too small and blurry), but I think they'd make some nifty little reference drawings for some people:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/harrison/Thesis/Doctoral/Stimuli/
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Kweepa · Sun 04/04/2004 12:29:09

Try Eadweard Muybridge - the first link on Google has got some good animations on the right ("Moving forward").

http://web.inter.nl.net/users/anima/chronoph/muybridge/index.htm

If you find a standard Muybridge walk cycle post the link here!

Cheers!

Ozwalled · Mon 05/04/2004 06:19:06

Thanks so much!

I'd looked at some Muybridge stuff already, but the link you provided was better than anything I'd previously found. The links section had some especially good sites in it with some plates that were alright.

See the following for some pretty okay pics (too bad none are bigger... oh, and they contain a lot of old, naked, black and white pictures. You have been warned.):

http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/muybridgexhibition.htm
http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/muybridge.htm

If anyone finds anything else that's good for human walkcycle reference material from Muybridge (or anyone else for that matter), OR even if you find any of these plates pictures a fair bit bigger, please feel free to post links here and/or send me a PM.

Thaks again!

MrColossal · Mon 05/04/2004 06:41:08

go to your local library and look him up, there are tons of books about Eddie M

Evil · Tue 06/04/2004 02:17:40

Heh.
http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/images/muybridge14.jpg

Domino · Tue 06/04/2004 02:20:17

Quote from: Evil on Tue 06/04/2004 02:17:40

http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/images/muybridge14.jpg

Gross, what is that thing.

Looks like Fat Bastard from Austin Powers.

Evil · Tue 06/04/2004 02:34:04

*cough*LGM*cough*

Ozwalled · Thu 08/04/2004 21:21:13

My library is ass. They have no Muybridge books.

I hate my town.

Candle · Thu 08/04/2004 21:23:34

Most library will ordered books from other library for you if you know the name of the book .

Ozwalled · Fri 09/04/2004 04:03:18

This is true. There were three copies of related books around the province. I guess I expected more.

I have them on order. Hopefully I'll get them sometime in the near future. Would have been nice to actually be able to take a look at them right away, though. Oh well.

Nevertheless, my 'Net search continues...

Reference photos (walkcycles)

Candle