Walking Animation

As a sort of superhero, I wanted a nice heroic walk cycle. Unfortunately there wasn't much reference material for a "heroic" walk cycle so I decided to try my hand at sort of, "free-hand" animating.

Using the same work process as I did with my running animation, I created the HeelContact, Passing and ToePush poses and then used sliding keys to help my character's feet slide along the floor.

Below are the screenshots for my key poses:


 


After putting in the sliding keys, I put in a little head bob and gave him a smiley face to make use of the target morphs and the my animation was done. I tried to give him a proud/powerful looking animation and I'd say I captured that.

Below is a video of my animation: