Reply To: Animation Questions

[Matthew Fricker]

Hi @waylow  , I have another animation question 😛 

Lets say you have a character that is walking through a scene and he needs to travel a distance that is further than he will get with the standard 24 frame cycle that we did in the bootcamp (say he needs to go the distance that would be covered in 3 cycles) . How would you approach making him walk this distance?

Would you animate the whole thing, so you are animating the all three cycles , or would you animate one cycle and duplicate the keys and make all the necesarry changes in the graphs and values. Or is there some way of adding cycle modifiers and applying them to a certain frame to give you the duplicated walk?

I really hope its the last way , but I cant seem to figure out how you apply modifiers , and as for the second way , I tried that and it just confused me, because from what I understand , you would have to manually figure out and input the values to give you the result that a cycle mod with offset would give you on the feet and torso, and then just duplicate and paste the rest – which seems like a long way around just applying the cycle modifiers you already have on to a set frame. As for the first method, that again seems like un-necesarry work unless you really want a unique cycle that has more character to it because it is not a perfect copy each cycle. 

Anyways, I did a lot of playing around and that is my thinking, but Ive hit the stage where It would be good to know the correct way to do it rather than just guessing and experimenting.

Thanks for any input you can offer.