Move Forward Using A Multi-Limb Walk Cycle

Move Forward Using A Multi-Limb Walk Cycle

on Jul 7th 2010 with 19 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: Just After Effects... enjoy!
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 29 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Have you ever wanted to animate a spider or crab walk cycle? In this tutorial you will learn a very useful and simple technique that will help you animate a walk cycle for creatures with anywhere from 2 to 200 limbs.

Tutorial

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File size 255MB

 
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Ran Ben Avraham is post production artist working mainly in the fields of motion design and visual effects. He is a freelancer from Israel, and also runs http://ran-mograph.blogspot.co.il/, an AE templates website, designated for the visual effects industry.  

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  • http://www.peewee1002.co.uk Peter Sawyer

    Loved the preview! Thought it was very amusing…..good job.

  • Chanaka

    he he! :D

  • eldad bareli

    wow!!!
    first to comment

    • eldad bareli

      where did you get the beach video??? artbeats???

      • http://www.tophateffects.com Ran Ben Avraham
        Author

        Hey eldad,

        Yes, Artbeats is exactly where i got the footage from.
        in the tutorial, i have also shown where to download a water-stamped version of the footage.
        so everyone can easily follow me.

      • eldad bareli

        היי רן
        מצטער לשגע אותך רק עוד דבר אחד מאיזה חבילה של ארטביטס
        אני אוכל להשיג את סרטון הים.
        אם זה אפשרי לענות כאן או בפרטי
        eldadbareli@gmail.com
        בברכה אלדד בראלי
        פוסט פרודקשן

      • Max

        I agree with what Eldad said :P

  • ianJ

    Hey Ran,

    Cute tutorial thank you, but one thing… the background sound loop was a bit too short, it became a little annoying. I definitely think a background soundtrack helps a LOT, but can I suggest a longer loop would be much better

    Ian

    • http://www.tophateffects.com Ran Ben Avraham
      Author

      Hey Ian,

      Thank you for addressing that subject, i meant to ask people here what they think of it.
      i to think it’s a bit to short, which can get annoying.
      I’ll be sure to use a longer music loop next time.

      Ran.

      • laidlow

        cool tut bro!! but in my opinion you could lose the sound loop altogether; a short loop gets annoying, and i think background music would just be in the way.

        but aside from that, kol hakavod ben adam!

  • jnothing

    That guitar loop made me seasick. WOw…

  • DJ

    Yes, Please … loose the loop! Believe me, the tutorial was interesting enough to stand on its own without hokey background music. You need to consider that anything in the background diminishes the ability to be understood with clarity. If you perchance, slur or “clutter” speak a word or two it may mean the difference between being understood or not.

    A tutorial is educational, not theatrical and is only disturbed by distractions. For a tutorial, it seems to me like a beginner web programmer using “flash” for effect. Again, this tutorial (and probably others done by you) doesn’t need any.

    • http://www.tophateffects.com Ran Ben Avraham
      Author

      Once again friends, sorry for the music loop. i’ll lose it next time.

  • http://www.youtube.com/ianhpiratao IANH – BR

    hahahahaha

  • Peter

    Yup music loop is annoying i can’t watch it because of it

  • vic

    hahahaha. looks funny as hell. keep up the good work!! can’t wait to check it out.

    peace,
    vic

  • http://www.gxcube.com GxCube

    Hi,

    Super complete and easy tutorial. Good work.

    Thanks

    Carlos

  • David

    I couldn’t stand this tutorial! there is this five second repeating guitar loop going on through out the entire thing.
    It drove me crazy! I stopped after three minutes.

  • tatane

    Hiro Nakamura effect