Walk

Animator Richard William says, " walk are the most hardest thing in animation." There are lot of thing which we have to look while animating a walk. Every person walks in various way.

A old lady who walks on street has different walking style than a young guy.

To set a tempo before starting an assignment is very important thing. I wanted to do a normal guy's walk. He is walking in market place and sees a girl. While observing her, he bangs on light pole. Because of embarrassment, he tries to hide his face.

I prepared a story board for this.

Planning a walk was challenging. I went on street for finding variety of references. In very short time, I gathered interesting references for walk. For my walk assignment planed, I used studio shoot references.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ifOBKyKZ40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MNKMwLljQY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=kfNe7Wocu-Q

I observe minute details of walk. I observed, how human body's weight shifts, legs and hand moves in opposite direction. There is a subtle movement of shoulder. Head reacts very slightly while a normal walk.

First Look of walk

I still want to achieve last moment where he feel embarrassed that, he hits a pole.

WIP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEZEini16iw

Last short is still in WIP stage.

Final Version