i've been working on a catwalk type walk cycle. it's been harder than i thought, hence the large number of attempts (24 so far).

i keep having to completely abandon an attempt and start over. once the motion is wrong, it's just plain wrong.

this one is the closest so far. the hip side to side motion is a little smoother than it should. needs more pop. and i don't think the timing and angle on the arms and hands is correct. i didn't even do much with the hair or head. not yet

turns out, a models catwalk is a very unnatural motion with a lot of subtlety in timing. it's a wonder they don't fall more often.

something i worked a lot on that you can't see from this angle and zoom level is the foot motion; very precise. it was especially hard since poser can't account for heels nor (and this is the big one) does it understand the "ball of the foot" which is where the pivot point should be. this means i have to fool around with a lot of very small Y and Z motions to keep the foot from sliding backwards and forwards and pumping up and down. and coordinated with the toe bending.

anyway... this is just a repeating 20 frame animation.

i spent a bunch of time spent looking at victoria secret shows (which have the most annoying camera angles and cuts, which makes figuring out the dynamic geometry difficult) and a mirror watching how the body moves in motion. As an aside, anyone notice that the VC fashion shows are, essentially, soft porn? not that there's anything wrong with that but doesn't it seems the least bit odd, considering what you *can't* show on TV?

i keep a copy of the full-sized version here and a quicktime movie (mpeg4) version here.