WEBVTT 00:00.210 --> 00:04.770 In this lesson, we're going to polish up the walk cycle, so if we take a look what we currently have. 00:05.760 --> 00:12.450 Remember, if we want to really evaluate this walk cycle, we want to exclude this last key frame here. 00:12.780 --> 00:13.230 Right. 00:13.230 --> 00:15.040 Because that's the same as this one. 00:15.060 --> 00:17.520 And so when it loops back through, it's going to play that key frame twice. 00:17.520 --> 00:19.410 It's going to play it here and it's going to play there. 00:19.780 --> 00:25.710 So if we want to loop this back, we need to exclude one of those key frames. 00:25.750 --> 00:27.540 I'm just going to go to frame thirty nine. 00:27.900 --> 00:32.440 So now when we look it back, it's actually only playing that key frame once, playing the first one. 00:33.360 --> 00:39.510 So currently what we have, we have both arms working and you know, a few more things we could do to 00:39.510 --> 00:41.520 polish this up even more. 00:42.390 --> 00:43.350 So let's take a look at that. 00:43.770 --> 00:45.840 Let's take a look at the spine real quick. 00:46.320 --> 00:51.540 Let's take a look at the Z, because currently, you know, you have to think of everything is in three 00:51.720 --> 00:54.080 three axes we're animating in 3D. 00:54.360 --> 00:58.650 So we want to make sure everything is twisting on all axes and working in every way. 00:58.890 --> 01:01.890 So we haven't animated this direction much. 01:02.100 --> 01:05.310 So let's just do a very subtle rotate Z here. 01:05.730 --> 01:13.170 And I'm going to go to the Rotate Z Space Bar here on the graph here so I can make sure I'm selecting 01:13.170 --> 01:15.570 only the rotate Zs of these three spine joints. 01:15.840 --> 01:18.960 So I'm command clicking them from here and now. 01:18.960 --> 01:22.920 When we go, I want to make sure that it's leaning to one side or the other. 01:23.280 --> 01:29.190 So let's scroll through and see which so it should basically, you know, compress on this side, on 01:29.190 --> 01:31.500 this screen left side. 01:32.320 --> 01:36.660 So in here, let's go to frame five and let's just compress this side down. 01:36.660 --> 01:37.410 Just a touch. 01:38.010 --> 01:38.790 And then. 01:38.970 --> 01:39.780 So now. 01:40.790 --> 01:46.160 It's getting compressed on that side and it's coming up and now it's falling down on this side, so 01:46.160 --> 01:50.600 many keyframe here and I want to keep this side slightly compressed. 01:50.600 --> 01:53.270 So I'm going to drag all these keyframes up just a little bit. 01:53.960 --> 01:57.620 And now it's coming back to neutral as it's falling down. 01:58.130 --> 02:02.800 And when it hits the ground, it's going to start compressing on that side as well. 02:02.810 --> 02:08.330 Someone had a keyframe here on 25, and I'm going to compress that side down and I'm going to try to 02:08.330 --> 02:09.170 do the same values. 02:09.170 --> 02:16.550 At point seven, I click this and go down to zero point eight, seven ish, and then I'm going to select 02:16.550 --> 02:17.900 this keyframe and bring it up. 02:18.590 --> 02:27.500 And so now we can see that it's kind of rotating on that side as well, maybe to a little bit more on 02:27.500 --> 02:30.140 both these and. 02:32.180 --> 02:37.280 So now we can see it's got a little bit of rotation is probably too much. 02:38.690 --> 02:45.290 Every time I do this, you know, I tend to take things a little too far and scale back. 02:48.380 --> 02:55.480 Cool, so we're adding just a little a little touch of very, very small changes so we can do the same 02:55.480 --> 03:02.140 thing, we can drag the wrists, you know, so when the risk is going forward or when the arm is going 03:02.140 --> 03:09.100 for, the risk should drag backwards and just do a slight drag here as it drags back and it catches 03:09.100 --> 03:09.360 up. 03:10.420 --> 03:15.820 And I mean, I leave it dragging back here until it gets all the way to the front. 03:16.690 --> 03:19.750 And then I'm going to have it rotate forward here on frame 30. 03:21.070 --> 03:24.430 So now when it goes forward, it's going to rotate forward. 03:24.690 --> 03:29.220 It's very small change, but it's just going to all those little things add up. 03:29.860 --> 03:35.290 And again, I want to, you know, drag it on the way back. 03:36.670 --> 03:43.510 And I want to carry that change through to its sister frame there at the beginning so we can kind of 03:43.510 --> 03:46.600 see this kind of dragging motion with the wrist now. 03:47.540 --> 03:47.950 Right. 03:48.100 --> 03:48.850 Maybe a little. 03:48.850 --> 03:49.570 A little too much. 03:49.570 --> 03:50.290 A little too fast. 03:50.290 --> 03:54.910 But I kind of like it and adds just that much more to the animation. 03:54.910 --> 03:56.400 So we're going to do that to this side as well. 04:39.690 --> 04:44.350 So now we have both a risk kind of moving and in a way that's dragging a little bit. 04:44.970 --> 04:47.670 And again, maybe that's a little exaggerated, but that's OK. 04:49.500 --> 04:52.560 And then the other thing we can do is we can take a look at the head, the head. 04:52.560 --> 04:53.930 We haven't animated it all yet. 04:54.390 --> 05:02.220 So as the body goes up right here, so I'm frame five, let's to keep him on frame one and then frame 05:02.220 --> 05:02.760 five. 05:03.730 --> 05:05.100 So it starts to go up. 05:06.720 --> 05:09.300 We can drag the head down just a little bit. 05:10.050 --> 05:12.300 Still going up to frame 10. 05:14.090 --> 05:17.980 And then on frame 15, it's coming down so we can bring the head back up again. 05:19.570 --> 05:21.490 The same thing through frame 20. 05:24.060 --> 05:31.650 And then it's going to hit the bottom here, and so it'll start to drag down again and through frame 05:31.650 --> 05:36.450 30 and then we can just copy this first frame back. 05:37.380 --> 05:41.070 Let us there see this little kind of maybe had Bob here. 05:41.910 --> 05:45.120 It's very small, very, very subtle here. 05:46.890 --> 05:48.600 But you can kind of see this head barbel. 05:48.990 --> 05:52.410 It just adds so much like just just that tiny little thing. 05:52.410 --> 05:54.210 It's almost hard to see from a distance. 05:54.210 --> 06:00.450 But like that makes everything feel connected from the feet all the way to the top of the head. 06:00.820 --> 06:03.240 Everything needs all that energy needs to carry through. 06:03.250 --> 06:08.430 So when it goes up, that should have a little tilt down and you can do the same thing to the to the 06:08.430 --> 06:08.790 rotate. 06:08.970 --> 06:10.440 Remember, we do that with the spine. 06:10.770 --> 06:14.460 So when it goes to this side, we can have the head drag this way. 06:15.680 --> 06:16.090 Right. 06:16.560 --> 06:17.700 So that's dragging that way. 06:17.700 --> 06:19.410 It's trying to stay where it was. 06:19.410 --> 06:22.830 All things in motion tend to stay in motion and they try to stay where they were. 06:23.370 --> 06:28.380 So now when it gets to that side now, it can swing over and kind of rotate to that side. 06:31.620 --> 06:38.670 And now it goes back to almost natural's, maybe leave it over there, just a touch, and now when it 06:38.670 --> 06:43.050 goes to neutral here, it's going to hit this side, try to stay over there. 06:47.080 --> 06:54.850 And it's going to swing over from 30 to go back to that side, maybe try to stay over there just a little 06:54.850 --> 06:55.960 bit longer. 07:01.590 --> 07:06.690 So now we kind of have a little bit ahead, but it might be too much, but I kind of like it. 07:06.690 --> 07:08.100 It gives it a lot more life. 07:08.100 --> 07:13.920 And with it being a skeleton, you know, things maybe move a little bit looser than if it had muscle 07:13.920 --> 07:17.080 and everything, connecting it together so you can get away with a little bit more. 07:17.610 --> 07:24.390 So the other thing we could do is we could do the same thing on the compression of the chest and we 07:24.390 --> 07:27.030 could do a rotate X compression. 07:27.270 --> 07:33.030 So when it goes up here on frame five to 10, we could rotate this down. 07:35.520 --> 07:36.780 And then it'll go up. 07:37.680 --> 07:46.650 All right, I'll get straight again as it's coming down, we're going to leave this up and then it compresses 07:46.650 --> 07:47.250 at the bottom. 07:48.210 --> 07:50.280 So it compresses down just a little bit. 07:50.820 --> 07:55.790 And you can tell I'm just doing the smallest changes are not a ton here, right? 07:56.250 --> 07:57.980 It's just the smallest changes. 07:58.020 --> 07:58.940 I'm a minimalist. 07:58.950 --> 08:07.270 Drag this to the end and I'm getting shifted just to keep the rotations member if we do shift and shift 08:07.380 --> 08:13.920 w so it looks like we maybe want a little too far with that so we can go into the graph editor and spaceborne 08:13.920 --> 08:20.520 here and grab the rotate axis and then we can kind of see where we went too far, possibly just grab 08:20.520 --> 08:28.090 those extremes and just kind of scale them in a little bit some of the space bar that back out and hit 08:28.110 --> 08:28.530 play. 08:38.540 --> 08:40.970 So it feels a lot better than when we started, right? 08:42.590 --> 08:46.760 There's a lot more going on and again, we could refine this further and further. 08:47.090 --> 08:52.250 It's really how far you want to take these walk cycles and give it personality. 08:52.280 --> 08:52.610 Right. 08:53.060 --> 08:56.450 So this is kind of a generic walk cycle that we've gone through. 08:56.750 --> 08:59.900 And you kind of got the idea of what to look out for. 08:59.900 --> 09:00.230 Right. 09:00.740 --> 09:05.750 The feet should be pushing off into the hips and the hips should be trying to lift the leg forward. 09:05.750 --> 09:11.450 And the next step and just the main takeaway I want you to take away from this is to start to think 09:11.450 --> 09:18.560 about the mechanics of how things move and why they move that way and what's driving what, you know, 09:19.130 --> 09:24.500 like hopefully you've discovered some new things in this little section here about the walk cycle, 09:24.500 --> 09:29.810 the fact that, you know, you're falling every step and so you need to lean for just a little bit. 09:30.080 --> 09:32.300 And we could probably even do that even more on this. 09:33.230 --> 09:35.900 Just lean everything for just a touch. 09:36.380 --> 09:36.810 Right. 09:37.010 --> 09:40.400 You know, all those kind of biomechanics things we need to start thinking about. 09:40.850 --> 09:47.300 And because when we do more complex motions, we need to understand how the body works and how forces 09:47.300 --> 09:50.760 work on each other and how that carries through the body. 09:51.140 --> 09:52.760 So hopefully this was helpful to you. 09:52.760 --> 09:57.240 And in the next lesson, I want to touch on a few more things with this, and I'll see you there. 09:57.350 --> 09:57.950 Thanks for watching.