Posts Tagged "walk cycles"

Scorpion walk cycle gait and simulation for 3D animation

Scorpion walk cycle gait and simulation for 3D animation

After posting about the spider animation tutorial I remembered I had read a paper about simulating the gait of real scorpions to build a tetrapod robot. A quick google search found the paper to be available online (as you probably know, many papers aren’t) but couldn’t copy the link to it – simply google “WALKING ROBOT SCORPION – EXPERIENCES WITH A FULL PARAMETRIC...

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Walking Spider Rigs

Walking Spider Rigs

This great tutorial from Lots Of Robots shows how to animate and guide a spider rig. Click the image for the best part of the tutorial, the one where the spider’s goal is moved during the animation. This is a must see tutorial for anybody interested in automatic animation, but it’s a little Max biased, as the whole bunch of leg animation is in a Max Script. I once did a walking spider...

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