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| | | I want to animate (in ldraw, not pov) a minifig that looks like he is walking. Does anyone know of a program, script or example that would show sutable angles for the legs etc? (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: how would I animate a minifig walking? —Adrian Drake
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| | | | | (...) Well it certainly isn't going to look realistic because minifigs don't have knees or ankles. So basically the legs are just going to swing back and forth like pendulums. It's a really tough problem. Good luck. Adrian (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: how would I animate a minifig walking? —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | | | (...) That's why I "bob" the minifig sideways when he walks. That way, it looks slightly more realistic, I think. By shifting the weight from side to side, the minifig can actually walk even without a knee joint. Fredrik (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: how would I animate a minifig walking? —Jeffrey M. Szklennik
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| | | | | Fredrik Glöckner made a great animation of a walking minifig: (URL) you go 'up' in his brickshelf folder, I believe he's got more animations, too. Jeff (...) (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: how would I animate a minifig walking? —Ahui Herrera
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| | | | | (...) Lok into using LD4DModler. You can import a LDraw model and then create a skeleton to make the minfig move. LD4DModler will then create the images (using POV) to make your aniamtion. YOU DO NOT NEED TO KNOW HOW TO USE POV just have it (...) (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: how would I animate a minifig walking? —Tore Eriksson
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| | | | | (...) Here's a really easy example of what you ask for: (URL) (4 kb) /Tore (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: how would I animate a minifig walking? —Stefan van Zwam
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| | | | This problem has been tackled by the stop-motion community as well, though we generally don't go over 15 fps. See something on it on the following website: (URL) film by YellowHead Studios: Animation Class Lesson 1. (URL) and Save target As... (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad)
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