George Walk Cycle v6.1

Ok, well, after tweaking, tweaking, and more tweaking, George's clothes still need more tweaking. ;-) But, they're working. Too flimsy for final use, but he doesn't pop out of them (so far).

I also rebuilt the walk cycle animation. Since this is the first walk cycle that I made without scaling him afterwards (bad idea :-P), this is the first one I'm really happy with.

Since the new cloth system doesn't require the clothes to be rigged to the skeleton, I don't have them attached. This does create a problem for me, though. All animations have to start with George in the "T-Pose", as you can see at the start of this animation. I need to decide if I care greatly about that problem, or if not, how to strategize my animation sequences.

One more thing. See, I "borrowed" this rig (skeleton) from another Blender user, and I owe him a lot of thanks for it, but, I've also found areas that it's been lacking. While creating this walk cycle, I found that his chest did not rotate independently of his hips. BAD things happen when you can't move the chest the opposite direction of the hips. ;-) So, I've modified (again) the rig, so that the spine bones from the hips up copy the rotation of the chest controller, at varying increments (25%, 50%, 75%, etc.). Did the job perfectly. :-)

Alright folks, enjoy! :-D

George has some expression...

And they're mostly angry ones... ;-)



Alrighty, George is finally givin' me more faces than just that sloppy, silly grin. Now, he's givin' me angry looks! Oh well, when I get more mouth controls in, I should be able to make him happier then ever!



Hair looks REALLY cool! Gotta love the programmers behind Blender.



Still working some bugs out with the eye control, but I imagine those will fall into place in a little bit.



Enjoy!





-GG

George Walks!

Yep, George is taking his first steps! Well, they're still rather clumsy, but they're steps. His clothing is have a few malfunctions, we'll have to talk to wardrobe about that.



Enjoy!