25/02/13 - Richard Williams Videos

Today we were shown three educational videos created by Richard Williams, famous for his animation work on the film Who framed Roger Rabbit.

The first focussed on simple human walk-cycles and how to go about creating them. First thing to do is to set the Tempo, meaning the number of frames over which a step takes place.
Here's a quick list of some examples and how they could correlate to a human walk cycle:

§  4 Frames – Cartoon run, too fast for any living human to achieve

§  6 Frames – Human sprint/run

§  8 Frames – Human run/jog

§  12 Frames – Supposedly most common pace that real people use when walking

§  etc

25/02/13

Animation

Richard Williams (Who framed roger rabbit)

#1

Walk-Cycles:

-          Set the tempo

o   Differentiated by number of frames in a step

§  4 Frames – Cartoon run, too fast for any living human to achieve

§  6 Frames – Human sprint/run

§  8 Frames – Human run/jog

§  12 Frames – Supposedly most common pace that real people use when walking

§  etc

-          Start with contact points

o   Front heel on ground with NO weight

-          Create passing position (mid-point between contacts)

-          Create in-betweens to progressively fill in the gap

#2

Walk’s with personality

-          Exaggerated movements

-          “Break” a joint

o   Extend a limb further than is physically possible (Extreme exaggeration)

-          Combine breaks and exaggerations to create interesting walk cycles

#3

Variations (Sneaking, Run) and animal movement