WEBVTT 00:00.150 --> 00:07.980 Now that our character is walking in space, we can now kind of reanalyze what's not working and how 00:07.980 --> 00:09.440 we can make this even better. 00:09.750 --> 00:13.470 And for me, what's not working still are some of the steps. 00:13.860 --> 00:17.250 So we can make edits to just that first cycle. 00:17.250 --> 00:22.980 And of course, because it's a cycle, it'll work for the rest of the animation so we can make these 00:22.980 --> 00:28.190 changes pretty quickly now that we can see them clearly and that we just have one cycle to fix. 00:28.530 --> 00:34.650 So one thing that I don't really like right now is the fact that the knees are still slightly bent on 00:34.650 --> 00:35.190 the. 00:36.160 --> 00:43.690 Kind of contact poses here, the legs should be pretty straight here, and I think part of that is because 00:43.990 --> 00:47.830 the foot is getting maybe here a little late. 00:48.250 --> 00:55.350 It should get there a little sooner, that the foot is maybe traveling a little slow through this gate. 00:55.930 --> 01:02.500 So what we can do is we can hold the foot back longer and we can get it to the front sooner. 01:02.840 --> 01:08.950 So to do that, let's take a look at this first step and we can see that the foot just starts to slide 01:08.950 --> 01:10.060 along the toe. 01:10.060 --> 01:17.140 And really, when we are walking, we're pushing off with the foot so that this leg gets really straight 01:17.140 --> 01:19.230 so that we can push off with it. 01:19.630 --> 01:26.350 So we need to keep this foot back, at least for maybe let's try to frames. 01:26.860 --> 01:33.280 So I'm just going to drag this back and I'm going to toggle with the greater than less than symbols. 01:33.850 --> 01:38.920 And we can see that if I hold my cursor here, we can see that it's pretty close. 01:39.550 --> 01:43.240 Maybe I could drag it back even further and we can lock out the knee. 01:44.080 --> 01:48.690 And that's OK, because what we're going to do is also increase the foot roll a little bit. 01:49.060 --> 01:51.090 So I'm also going to increase the foot roll. 01:51.910 --> 01:56.020 So now the knee is no longer kind of getting locked out. 01:56.710 --> 02:04.420 And what we can see is that we might need to push this next keyframe down or we could delete it altogether. 02:04.690 --> 02:04.870 It? 02:04.870 --> 02:06.550 S here and keyframe everything. 02:06.850 --> 02:17.800 And then just delete this one so we can see is we are also getting tricked by one of these fun little 02:17.800 --> 02:24.640 Maya things where so I have this foot roll selected, so I deleted this key frame, but it's still popping 02:24.640 --> 02:24.820 here. 02:24.820 --> 02:27.220 So that's telling me that there's keys elsewhere. 02:27.220 --> 02:30.120 So if we look here, we can see we actually only to leave the foot roll. 02:30.550 --> 02:33.700 So again, that is this little tricky thing here. 02:33.700 --> 02:33.910 If you. 02:33.910 --> 02:34.150 Right. 02:34.150 --> 02:39.010 Click on any of these, you can see it's sinking the timeline display with what we have selected here. 02:39.320 --> 02:43.660 So if I select something else now, we can see there's actually a keyframe down here, but if I select 02:43.660 --> 02:44.790 the foot roll, there isn't. 02:44.800 --> 02:49.870 So either you need to remember that or you can just select everything here to make sure that you're 02:49.870 --> 02:51.790 getting all of the keys. 02:51.790 --> 02:54.200 And now we can delete that and it should pop back. 02:54.700 --> 02:59.620 So now let's play that and we can see that the foot is definitely traveling a lot faster now. 03:01.180 --> 03:04.090 And I think we could even get away with a little more. 03:06.040 --> 03:15.370 Foot roll here, so let's just increase the foot roll and let's also decrease the rotate X, so we'll 03:15.370 --> 03:21.340 keep that down and then we'll keep the translator Y down as well, because we don't want that to lift 03:21.340 --> 03:22.650 off the ground just yet. 03:26.830 --> 03:28.880 I think that's already looking a little bit better. 03:29.650 --> 03:36.310 Let's actually bring the roll all the way up so that we can kind of fill that push off through the whole 03:36.310 --> 03:36.730 step. 03:39.620 --> 03:42.630 So the other thing I noticed is it kind of stops here, right? 03:42.650 --> 03:47.960 We get to this frame three and it just kind of hits this pose and the foot stays in this pose the entire 03:47.960 --> 03:48.350 way. 03:48.950 --> 03:51.140 So we can adjust that a little bit. 03:51.140 --> 03:54.400 And let's go into the graph editor and see what's happening. 03:54.980 --> 03:58.670 Maybe we need an extra little keyframe here to keep the foot roll going. 03:58.670 --> 04:01.030 So it doesn't appear like it just kind of stops there. 04:01.040 --> 04:03.230 So I'm just going to grab this tangent handle. 04:03.230 --> 04:05.690 So this curve continues past that key frame. 04:06.530 --> 04:06.800 Right. 04:06.850 --> 04:12.650 So now it doesn't feel like it like hits a wall here as much, whereas before it the roll immediately 04:12.650 --> 04:14.000 stopped on this key frame. 04:14.210 --> 04:18.920 Now it continues for another frame before going back to neutral. 04:19.970 --> 04:21.910 So that already feels a lot better to me. 04:22.310 --> 04:23.900 So we can do that to the other side. 04:24.170 --> 04:26.960 And I will see you in one second while I do that. 04:35.420 --> 04:39.770 So now let's take a look at this other foot and make sure it's doing the same kind of thing that we 04:39.770 --> 04:40.010 want. 04:40.040 --> 04:42.050 Yeah, it looks way better, man. 04:42.080 --> 04:43.160 It just looks so much better. 04:43.730 --> 04:48.740 And sometimes you have to put the character in this mode to be able to see these types of things, because 04:48.860 --> 04:53.150 when they're walking on the spot, it's sometimes hard to see and hard to fix. 04:53.150 --> 04:55.430 A little bit already look so much better. 04:55.430 --> 05:00.470 It's almost hard to see other things that's wrong with it now because that fixed so much, that was 05:00.470 --> 05:01.060 wrong with it. 05:01.370 --> 05:06.410 So the other little thing I want to fix real quick is the hell bent. 05:06.410 --> 05:08.640 This knee is on the extension here. 05:09.170 --> 05:13.250 Normally when we're walking this leg, it's pretty straight right at the contact pose. 05:13.670 --> 05:18.920 But what's what's difficult walk cycles, which, you know, if you've watched this far that, you know, 05:19.040 --> 05:20.750 is dealing with the knee pops. 05:21.170 --> 05:25.150 And when you get the leg straight, you're in your knee pop territory. 05:25.460 --> 05:29.090 So it's definitely something to keep a lookout for. 05:29.480 --> 05:32.800 So let's let's approach this and see what we can do to try to fix that. 05:33.170 --> 05:40.190 I think one of the things we can do is bring the foot out sooner to that kind of end pose where it's 05:40.190 --> 05:40.790 going to be. 05:41.090 --> 05:44.720 I think the other thing that we could do is maybe lift up the torso. 05:45.260 --> 05:48.800 So it'll kind of bring that we're going to translate. 05:48.800 --> 05:53.540 Why not bring this most bottom keyframe? 05:53.570 --> 05:54.680 We'll just drag it up. 05:57.430 --> 06:02.500 And what I'm looking at here is this knee right now, someone hit W and I'm going to shift middle mouse 06:02.500 --> 06:06.700 drag and I'll watch that knee as it gets straighter and straighter. 06:06.700 --> 06:08.140 And I want to be a pretty straight. 06:08.850 --> 06:09.850 It looks a lot better. 06:11.230 --> 06:13.300 We're going to deal with now is all these knee pops. 06:13.870 --> 06:19.540 And that's OK because now we can go back in and maybe translate this up a little bit. 06:23.790 --> 06:29.520 All right, so now that knee pop is getting we're getting rid of that hip hop and. 06:33.180 --> 06:38.760 The only thing is, you know, it looks a little goofy that this is going up, so I think that the thing 06:38.760 --> 06:46.150 we could do is actually use the foot roll and have the highest foot roll actually be over here instead. 06:47.220 --> 06:48.300 So let's try that. 06:50.200 --> 06:53.690 And let's have a foot roll go down a lot sooner. 06:54.140 --> 06:58.130 So where we did have it, it's now going down a lot quicker. 07:01.160 --> 07:07.520 Yeah, that already looks a lot better, so the foot is traveling a lot faster than we had it originally 07:08.300 --> 07:09.140 and. 07:11.590 --> 07:18.940 I think we just need the foot roll to be a little bit higher so we don't get this knee pop on this frame 07:18.940 --> 07:20.590 or we just move this one over. 07:21.330 --> 07:23.170 So let's take a look at the knees now. 07:24.260 --> 07:26.530 It's definitely hyperextend in here. 07:26.530 --> 07:33.730 So now let's just bring up the foot roll so the knee is no longer popping and do the same thing for 07:33.730 --> 07:36.100 the next frame to shift middle mouse dragging. 07:37.650 --> 07:40.620 To keep the leg kind of straight here, at least for two frames. 07:44.110 --> 07:50.560 And maybe I'm going to hit another keyframe here on the foot roll and bring it down some, let's keep 07:50.560 --> 07:52.090 this leg kind of straight through here. 07:53.080 --> 08:01.960 So now when we toggle through, that looks so much better, I can already tell, oh, my God, that 08:01.960 --> 08:02.560 looks better. 08:03.880 --> 08:08.980 This might just be my eye, you know, I'm sure hopefully, you know, you'll you'll be able to see 08:08.980 --> 08:10.150 it in your own animation. 08:10.540 --> 08:14.440 When you stare at this stuff long enough, you can see these differences and maybe we can even see it 08:14.440 --> 08:15.790 between the left and right leg. 08:15.820 --> 08:22.630 Let's take a look at how much better you can tell how much better this leg that we worked on is for 08:22.630 --> 08:24.310 the plant contact. 08:26.820 --> 08:31.140 See how this other leg is staying bent the whole time and the other one is getting straight, and how 08:31.140 --> 08:33.330 much better that straight leg feels? 08:33.840 --> 08:35.550 It just feels way more natural. 08:35.970 --> 08:39.900 So let's just do that for this other side and I'll see you in the next lesson. 08:40.020 --> 08:40.470 All right. 08:40.470 --> 08:41.610 Thanks for watching by.