mmm... Vanilla.

So the past couple of weeks were devoted to learning a vanilla walk cycle.

"Vanilla walk?" you say.

yes, that's right- a vanilla walk. No chocolate chip cookie dough walks or superman.. just a plain ordinary vanilla walk. simple? well..I've heard that if you can get a walk cycle just perfect, you can do just about anything. (hehe.. or something like that.) The walk cycle involves EVERYTHING we've learned thus far and so it was VERY tricky getting this little ball with legs (Ballie) to walk across my screen. (frustrating at times also, especially when I switched from stepped mode, where it would play just the certain poses i keyed in, to spline, or playing normally. Oh man, when I first played it back, Ballie's body parts went flailing about! ha..

I figured it out and was on my way to making a full walk cycle. There's much to be changed with this first walk, but at least I've come to understand how to go about it. It's a good thing, too, because these next couple weeks our assignment is to animate a personality walk. This is going to be a lot of fun! So here's my assignment from the last couple weeks. We also posed STU as "concerned." enjoy!