T0386 - Digital Tutors - Animating Walk Cycles in XSI

Create believable walk cycles and learn effective animation techniques in XSI. Contains over 3.5 hours of project-driven training. Perfect for beginner to intermediate artists.Popular highlights include:

• Body Mechanics of a Walk Cycle


• Disposition of the Feet for Balance


• Reference Points for Convincing Poses


• Weight Transfer Throughout the Steps


• Follow-through and Overlapping for Realistic Fluidity


• Procedures for Blocking Animation


• Timing and Spacing for Believable Weight


• Using Exaggeration to Accentuate Poses for Interest


• Methods to Use to Accelerate WorkFlow


• Using Simple Expressions to Shift Keys for Desired Timing


• Creating Advanced Controls for Greater Functionality in Rig


• Exploring XSI's High Level Editing System to Manipulate Poses


• Utilizing the Animation Editor to Enhance Blocked Animation


• Transform Parameters for Quick and Easy Key Modification


• Translating Walk Cycle Forward


• Helpful Diagrams for Motion Clarity


• Techniques for Building Seamless Cycles

Lesson Outline:

1.	Introduction and project overview	1:14
2.	Setting up the scene	9:04
3.	Starting to pose the Contact Position	8:57
4.	Finishing the Contact Positions	7:30
5.	Blocking in the Down Position	7:44
6.	Adding the Passing Position	7:38
7.	Posing the Peak Position	5:51
8.	Working on the Spacing of the steps	7:12
9.	Fixing the flow of the walk	8:55
10.	Tweaking the push off of the feet	9:25
11.	The side-to-side motion of the feet	6:44
12.	Rotation Y disposition of the feet	3:37
13.	Completing the feet	5:43
14.	Wrapping up the legs	8:05
15.	Checking the character's balance throughout the walk	3:39
16.	Animating the side-to-side rotation of the hips	4:13
17.	Finishing the hips	5:19
18.	Adding back and forth rotation to the upper body	8:33
19.	Follow-through and overlapping of the neck and head	10:04
20.	The Y rotation of the upper body	2:14
21.	Side-to-side turns of the upper body	2:26
22.	Completing the chest	4:09
23.	Working on the head turns	2:35
24.	Wrapping up the head	2:53
25.	Starting to animate the arms	6:07
26.	The follow-through and overlapping of the forearm	7:22
27.	Adding follow-through to the wrists	10:04
28.	Finishing the arms	9:57
29.	Finalizing the walk cycle	9:51
30.	Bonus lesson: translating the walk cycle forward	3:16
31.	Bonus lesson: creating full IK arms	16:27
32.	Bonus lesson: limiting forearm rotation to one axis	3:37
33.	Bonus lesson: enhancing the IK / FK legs	13:33
	Total Run Time:	3:43:58