WEBVTT 00:00.210 --> 00:04.680 So now that we have the lower body in a pretty good spot, let's turn on the upper body. 00:04.680 --> 00:10.320 So we have this display layer that we created earlier in the scene and now we can see the visibility 00:10.320 --> 00:11.300 and turn that back on. 00:11.940 --> 00:16.140 So let's take a look at the upper body now that we just have it turned on and see what we have left 00:16.140 --> 00:18.570 to do, which is maybe quite a lot. 00:20.760 --> 00:22.650 So it's actually not looking terrible. 00:22.800 --> 00:27.420 It looks like he's on a tightrope or something, but yeah, we can make this look a lot better. 00:28.050 --> 00:34.910 So let's go to put the cons on their own visibility layer. 00:35.160 --> 00:38.220 So I'm going to turn off joints and select geometry there. 00:38.220 --> 00:44.670 I'm going to go select just the cons and I'm going to go make my own display layer and I'm going to 00:44.670 --> 00:45.810 say Upper Conn's. 00:49.080 --> 00:54.510 And now that's saved, I can hit the peace so that when we play back, those will also turn off. 00:57.160 --> 01:04.090 And I can kind of analyze a little better what's going on, so any time that we walk, our upper half 01:04.090 --> 01:06.360 kind of counteracts the lower half. 01:06.670 --> 01:11.730 So if the right foot's going for the left hand is going forward and vice versa. 01:11.860 --> 01:13.600 So we can adjust that. 01:13.960 --> 01:21.040 And as I'm looking at this, I can see already see that, you know, we have maybe a couple of spots 01:21.040 --> 01:26.560 that we can adjust the lower body, which any time I animate, I'm always kind of back and forth on 01:26.560 --> 01:27.040 stuff. 01:28.180 --> 01:31.570 You know, I never I never just assume something is done. 01:31.840 --> 01:32.980 I always want to play with that thing. 01:33.010 --> 01:33.340 All right. 01:33.340 --> 01:36.670 Well, what if I did this and then see how that works? 01:36.850 --> 01:39.910 And again, that's you know, this was the neep hotfix we did earlier. 01:40.360 --> 01:43.870 And I'm just afraid that we maybe took it too far. 01:46.580 --> 01:53.380 Or that the we need to go down for less frames, which I think is really the case. 01:55.630 --> 01:59.290 Yeah, I think that's really what needs to happen is that this. 02:00.490 --> 02:05.880 Little debt needs to be a much shorter than what we had originally set it aside. 02:06.310 --> 02:08.180 So let's do the same thing here. 02:09.130 --> 02:13.060 Let's bring that up and then translate that down a little bit. 02:13.070 --> 02:15.040 Get this tangent going down. 02:17.140 --> 02:20.710 And let's look at those knee pops a little bit. 02:25.330 --> 02:30.730 It just keeps the body more upright, you know, when you're walking kind of casually, you don't want 02:30.730 --> 02:33.130 to pretend like, you know, you're having a lot of effort. 02:33.490 --> 02:35.400 It's taking a lot of effort to walk. 02:35.770 --> 02:44.150 So it's good to try to keep somewhat of a consistent, you know, translate why. 02:44.830 --> 02:46.000 So, again. 02:48.090 --> 02:56.960 Just looking at these knee pops as kind of a good indication of like, is this actually, you know, 02:57.030 --> 02:58.950 going the right way that I want it to? 03:01.850 --> 03:05.390 OK, so I promise we'll work and work on the upper body. 03:05.780 --> 03:11.490 OK, so now we can see that we have everything on lower body working. 03:11.510 --> 03:13.700 So what I'd like to do is work from the bottom up. 03:14.060 --> 03:17.680 And for our case earlier, that was the feet up and now we've done that. 03:17.690 --> 03:19.510 Now it's the spine, the spine. 03:19.570 --> 03:20.840 The next thing you need to work on. 03:21.260 --> 03:27.710 So what we can do is go through and set a key frame where we know the keys need to be. 03:28.040 --> 03:34.670 You know, we have these kind of extreme poses we've already set, which are on one, 10, 20 and 30 03:34.670 --> 03:35.080 and 40. 03:35.090 --> 03:36.740 So basically every 10 frames. 03:36.740 --> 03:36.980 Right. 03:37.250 --> 03:43.580 If you remember where the cog is, we see 20, 30, 40, and the breakdowns are on the in-between frames. 03:43.970 --> 03:49.040 So we can go ahead and set those keys so we know are we at least need to have keyframes there and now 03:49.040 --> 03:51.200 we can just kind of play off the animation we've already done. 03:51.200 --> 03:57.890 Like I said, if the lower half has the right LFA for it, we know the right arm needs go for it. 03:57.890 --> 04:00.260 So the body would be twisting that way. 04:00.680 --> 04:05.870 And it looks like we don't have this arm set properly to follow. 04:06.170 --> 04:10.370 So let me just go to follow the chest. 04:11.120 --> 04:17.720 And now when we rotate the spine, that arm should go forward and it does. 04:18.530 --> 04:22.420 And it's always a fun thing about making a rig when things work properly. 04:22.850 --> 04:24.020 So we have this rotation. 04:24.020 --> 04:26.870 So now we know we need to do the opposite for these other sides. 04:27.230 --> 04:31.760 So I'm going to rotate this way and I'm going to minimize drag to the first frame again. 04:31.760 --> 04:33.700 You know, these need to match. 04:33.710 --> 04:36.530 So any time we do a change to one, we need to change the other. 04:36.800 --> 04:41.510 So now we basically have this kind of swinging motion for the upper body. 04:42.980 --> 04:50.150 And the next thing we can do is bring the hands down and we can do the same thing. 04:51.230 --> 04:58.010 Let's first get the first frame done before we go through and make a bunch of poses are a bunch of keys 04:58.520 --> 05:02.960 so we can just bring this arm down kind of naturally to the side. 05:03.710 --> 05:11.930 And it should be behind us because it's the foot on its side is forward so that we can get a frame 10 05:12.680 --> 05:14.060 or rather frame 20. 05:14.420 --> 05:16.880 And we know this hand should be forward a little bit. 05:17.900 --> 05:23.300 And I'm just also rotating the hand so the forearm and the hand are kind of in a straight line. 05:24.320 --> 05:26.450 And we can bring this for a little bit. 05:26.750 --> 05:29.570 We can also adjust the pull vector here. 05:29.840 --> 05:30.860 So I set a key there. 05:30.860 --> 05:37.070 I'm going to set a key on frame one, bring this out just to touch the same thing from frame twenty. 05:37.070 --> 05:45.140 Just bring this elbow out just a little bit and now we can do the same thing for, you know, this end 05:45.140 --> 05:47.120 frame lets middle mouse drag that to forty. 05:47.750 --> 05:55.610 Now let's bring down this hand and we know this needs to be forward because the opposite foot is forward. 05:56.240 --> 05:58.280 So the opposite hand should be going forward. 05:58.670 --> 06:07.580 Again, we need to bring out this pull vector to keep the elbow out and make sure we're setting keyframes 06:07.580 --> 06:12.630 on everything and that our arm poses aren't too extreme. 06:12.630 --> 06:13.910 Remember, it's a walk, not a run. 06:13.910 --> 06:15.950 So the arms aren't doing a ton of work. 06:15.950 --> 06:18.230 We just want to have them down by the side. 06:18.230 --> 06:24.110 And being a bit natural here is natural, I guess, as a skeleton is going to be. 06:24.110 --> 06:27.140 And again, any time I make a change to one end, I need to make it to the other. 06:27.860 --> 06:33.410 So I'm going to set those keys there, going to go to the middle key frame and I'm going to bring this 06:33.410 --> 06:40.340 one back because its leg, its sides of that leg is now forward. 06:41.360 --> 06:44.900 The other thing I can do a course is adjust these shoulders. 06:44.900 --> 06:47.420 But, you know, the main thing that's going to do a lot of the movement are the hand. 06:47.420 --> 06:52.150 I like cons and so I can adjust those. 06:52.910 --> 06:58.520 So now let's play this back and we can see that it's doing pretty good. 06:59.450 --> 07:03.230 We have kind of this natural walk motion happening. 07:03.740 --> 07:06.560 The only thing is this head is kind of rotating with the spine. 07:06.800 --> 07:09.350 So instead of following the body, I can say follow the world. 07:09.350 --> 07:12.260 And so it's going to snap the head forward. 07:12.470 --> 07:19.290 So now when we play, the head should stay looking forward when the rest of the body is, you know, 07:19.310 --> 07:20.960 rotating around with the spine. 07:22.010 --> 07:28.400 So depending on how you want this walk to look, we can continue to adjust this and refine it. 07:28.670 --> 07:32.720 So I think for one thing, I think the rotation on the spine is a little too much. 07:33.050 --> 07:35.990 So now that we have that set, we can always dial it back in the graph editor. 07:35.990 --> 07:40.970 So let's go to the rotate wise, which is pretty clearly these. 07:41.390 --> 07:47.540 And with these selected, I'm going to hold my cursor around zero. 07:47.540 --> 07:47.780 Right. 07:47.780 --> 07:51.500 We know this is the default value I'm going to hit are to pull up scale. 07:51.800 --> 07:57.620 Now my shift middle mouse drag this so that it scales all the keys back down to the default. 07:57.950 --> 08:01.250 And one thing I can do to kind of see where I came from is hit the buffer. 08:01.430 --> 08:06.140 Herve's, which is this little button right here, buffer curves snapshot, so I click that and I start 08:06.140 --> 08:07.670 making changes to the curves. 08:08.000 --> 08:13.160 We can see where we left off so we can see what's the what's the change that we made here. 08:13.160 --> 08:13.510 Right. 08:14.630 --> 08:18.170 So we we can tell, you know, maybe we went too far. 08:18.590 --> 08:22.910 But I think for us, I think dialing it back a little bit is probably the right thing to do because 08:22.910 --> 08:23.750 we are walking again. 08:23.750 --> 08:25.550 You're not making a huge, huge effort. 08:26.110 --> 08:31.760 OK, the other thing to think about is when we're walking that we don't walk totally straight up and 08:31.760 --> 08:32.750 down again. 08:32.750 --> 08:34.820 Think about walking as you're falling forward. 08:35.090 --> 08:38.230 So we need to have a slight lean forward to our walk. 08:38.630 --> 08:41.750 So for us to do that, I want to do that for the entire thing. 08:41.750 --> 08:46.940 So I'm going to go to the rotate acts of the Kohji and I'm just going to grab everything and I'm going 08:46.940 --> 08:49.460 to rotate him for just a touch. 08:50.150 --> 08:56.900 And then the other thing I might do is grab all the translate zis and I might grab, drag them for just 08:56.900 --> 09:05.600 a touch and I think we may be missing some animation here that we didn't carry through on these breakdowns. 09:06.020 --> 09:07.910 So let's think about what we're doing and translate then. 09:09.680 --> 09:11.400 It's going forward now. 09:11.450 --> 09:15.410 This is going forward in the back and now it's going forward again. 09:16.070 --> 09:17.360 Now it's going back. 09:18.110 --> 09:22.250 And I think the breakdown that we missed here is just this back. 09:22.520 --> 09:25.040 And we didn't have this kind of mirrored through. 09:25.400 --> 09:32.420 And again, because of the cycle, we need to get these splines to be straight so that they're carrying 09:32.420 --> 09:33.280 through each other again. 09:33.290 --> 09:39.620 We can see that if we go to curves and we go to post Infinity Cycle now, we can see that these curves 09:39.620 --> 09:41.280 should be kind of flowing into each other. 09:41.280 --> 09:43.640 I mean, just the tangents that we need as well. 09:44.240 --> 09:47.980 So now it's spacebar here and kind of look at what we're doing. 09:48.410 --> 09:50.090 So we have a slight rotation. 09:50.090 --> 09:56.120 Lean forward because the character should be, you know, leaning forward and moving forward. 09:56.540 --> 10:00.380 So they're constantly kind of falling forward and the feet are what's catching you. 10:01.220 --> 10:07.790 So the other thing we can do in the next lessons is to offset some of the animation so it's not as robotic 10:07.790 --> 10:08.690 as it looks right now. 10:08.900 --> 10:14.300 So in the next lesson, let's further refine this and make some more improvements to the walk cycle. 10:14.360 --> 10:15.020 Thanks for watching.