Attached Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNbWZTS_0EA

In two parts.

Part 1 out today, part 2 tomorrow.

How to animate walking up stairs from a BVH mocap walk loop using Carrara but works with any 3D Application. http://www.facebook.com/scififunk for more.

In this short (2 part) series I look at how to take any walk loop and edit it quickly so that the character walks up stairs.

This has several advantages from just changing to a preset walk up stairs loop (from your original walk loop), the major one being the character will stay "in character". i.e. all the hand and body movements are (almost0 the same.

What changes are the feet placements (the knees have to be raised, and the feet have to stay on a step for the right amount of time).

In part 1 I introduce the basic approach and the limitations with this system (no one system is perfect in 3d animation!).