polartech opened this issue on Feb 20, 2001 ยท 11 posts
polartech posted Tue, 20 February 2001 at 11:22 AM
Having been charged with the task of producing an animated canine, I just wondered if there was such a thing as a four-legged walk sequence anywhere... I know, it`s a long shot ;-)) Thanks.
JeffH posted Tue, 20 February 2001 at 11:24 AM
Try creating one in the walk designer; load the dog.cr2 as the figure type.
polartech posted Tue, 20 February 2001 at 11:50 AM
I tried that Jeff... the poor animal ends up with great back legs, but is crippled at the front end ;-) Maybe I could have a look at the keyframes for those legs and play around. Thanks.
JeffH posted Tue, 20 February 2001 at 12:01 PM
Attached Link: http://www.poserworld.com
I remember someone saying there are dog animations at Poserworld, try there.
polartech posted Tue, 20 February 2001 at 12:09 PM
Cheers... going now!!
zalmegra posted Tue, 20 February 2001 at 4:48 PM
Attached Link: http://www.semplanet.com
I was going to try parenting a front paw to a back paw so they move in tandem, but haven't tried it yet. Same goes for the horse. Seems like it would work though
servo posted Tue, 20 February 2001 at 11:37 PM
Hmmm... the parenting thing won't look all that great even if it works. A four-legged stride is not simply two pairs of two-legged strides. Quadrapeds have very distinct gaits that vary according to animal and speed. --
Fox-Mulder posted Wed, 21 February 2001 at 3:07 AM
Yah, I think Poserworld must have a few. I've seen a Dog Walk, Dog Sit, etc. There are also a few Horse trotting and Galloping Free BVH around too. The Dog Walk is fairly good as I recall...
Larry F posted Wed, 21 February 2001 at 3:38 AM
Why not go to a bookstore (Barnes and Noble, Borders, other) and look for a copy of Eadward Muybridge's motion sequences of humans and animals walking? Over a 100 years old but still very good. These books have several frame sequences (well, hey, Larry, a sequence IS several frames) of motion usually in profile of dogs,horses, cows, lions, etc. Pretty good stuff for keyframing. Larry F May be able to order through Amazon or else where webwise.
polartech posted Wed, 21 February 2001 at 6:22 AM
Servos quite right. The mechanics of a quadrapeds walk cycle are very distinctive, and actually quite hard to manually animate. Larry - thats a great reference tool for anyone who is animating any kind of natural motions on a regular basis. I intend to hunt down a copy asap. Id planned to do that from first opening Poser2 ;-) How time flies... The animated poses at PoserWorld are SUPERB - Havent applied them to anything except the dog yet, but they look awesome on that. Its simple enough to string together the walk, sit, bark sequences. Looks grrreat! Thanks everyone.
RenderBeast posted Wed, 21 February 2001 at 3:16 PM
Attached Link: http://www.3dgate.com/techniques/001113/1113dogwalk.html
Not really poser. It is max tutorial for 4ped walk.But I think it's worth reading