Tips on walking anims please:)

having fun animating but i have hit a road block with making really good walks,anyone have any tips on making good walking anims?


stuff like how many frames and ect.

I highly reccommend a book called The Animator's Survival Kit written by Richard Williams who directed Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It is a fascinating and entertaining read and about half of the book is on creating walks.

http://www.rubberbug.com/walking.htm

http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLwalker.html

Also studying the default bvh files for stride length and duration can be useful.

http://secondlife.com/community/avatar.php

huh, interesting coincidence. This first link is an excerpt from a book called "Digital Character Animation 2, Vol 1" which I was flipping through just a couple hours ago. It's one of my favorite books about 3D animation. Not software specific, but that's an advantage; rather than getting bogged down with the buttons and menus of the software being used, the book discusses higher level concepts, like techniques used for character modeling or breakdowns of various movements.