Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 01:23:28 +0000 From: Andy Kinsella Organization: Blurred Vision Subject: [IML] quest: character animating (walking/running and stuff) Greetings, Can someone tell me where I can get me some info on walking running cycles, so i know where to put my feet and arms etc. . . 8] I feel a bit of a berk walking about in front of the mirror 8)) I want to animate soldier walking, running, stalking and stuff. Not point starting with the easy stuff eh 8D ---------------------------------- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 09:17:22 -0500 From: Frank Gabriel Cartoon Animation by Preston Blair (Walter Foster) The Human Figure in Motion, Eadweard Muybridge (Dover Books) The Animator's Workbook, Tony White (Watson Guptill) -Frank ---------------------------------- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 12:37:24 -0400 From: "Tim Wilson [Crestline]" <76432.1122@COMPUSERVE.COM> Have you looked at my Humanoid figures for Imagine at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/crestline/iobhuman.htm They contain walking and running States, and are already articulated. As I've mentioned in the past, animating them is not necessarily the easiest thing in the world, but it might at least giving a running (forgive the pun) start. ---------------------------------- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 22:28:11 +0100 From: George Cole The I-Files has a great section written by Cory Collins which shows you decent walk, run, creep cycles and many more for 2 and 4 legged characters. It tells you pretty much where to put the arms and feet I think. ---------------------------------- Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 12:49:53 -0400 From: "Tim Wilson [Crestline]" <76432.1122@COMPUSERVE.COM> To Andy Kinsella re your message of Sat, 1 Aug 1998: >>> Yeah, I guess that would be a good place to start. Unfortunately, I'm using an Amiga, and a pretty low spec one at that. Untill someone writes a decent PDF viewer, the Ifiles is as good as useless to me. XPDF works, but it takes ages to decode a each page. <<<< It sounds like you're looking for some other alternative, but just so you know, Humanoid does work on the Amiga, and comes with a printed manual that's platform-independent. ----------------------------------