After finishing my basic walk and run cycles, I then had to tackle developing a run and walk with personality. I started with the walk cycle, for this cycle I did want the shift the center of gravity with it and so I once again referred to Kevin Parry’s “100 Ways to Walk” YouTube Video and specifically used the walk titled “All is Lost” (Timestamp- 4:55) (Kevin Parry: 2018). With this reference I developed the sketches for a more slouched down low-mood type walk and the keyframes in terms of their foot placement differed quite substantially from the basic walk cycle where it was long and wide contact poses with a decent pace, this walk cycle kept the foot placement a lot closer during the contact poses and on top of this it was set at a much slower pace to convey that look of defeat and or exhaustion. Which leads to the main hardship faced with the development of this walk cycle, By far out of all 4 of the cycles I had to develop for this assignment, this one was the most labor-intensive animation to develop due to the sheer number of frames I need to create to slow this walk cycle down to the correct speed. Although I’m very impressed with this walk cycle I do have some aspects I would improve upon if I were to attempt this type of walk cycle again and that is how I handed the secondary action of dragging the sword which I think changes length as it moves up and down and I intend to keep this in mind with future animation practices, the progression from initial sketches to the final animation can be viewed below.

  

www.youtube.com. (n.d.). 100 Different Ways to Walk by Kevin Parry (Animation Reference with Music). [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVjIqr8CTtQ&t=134s [Accessed 2 Nov. 2023].

 

 

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