Marswalk.

[Mason]

Hi, the spirit sent new pictures.





Király András (Mason) Character Rigging Reel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWCS3S23Xc0

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[rray]

Almost as not from this planet ;) nice work!

[Hirazi Blue]

Very nice...
All done in Softimage?

[Mason]

Thx. Yes, softimage and mudbox.
Thanks the correction, the video shows already so.

[McNistor]

It looks nice, but I have an issue with the image: the fact that you chose to conceal the legs on the ground makes it look like it is in front of a movie set (decor).
The character reminds me of District 9.

[Mason]

Update:

[SquirrelSa]

Not really a fan of the animation . . . seems like it's missing allot of secondary movement in the limbs . . . Also, I didn't feel as though we were on mars?? The character modelling is good though

[Pancho]

Yep, the walk cycle couldn't be any stiffer. No animal or human being walks like that.

[Memag]

Yep, the walk cycle couldn't be any stiffer. No animal or human being walks like that.

But that's the creature from Mars,
how could we possibly reflect and apply our knowledge and understanding of motion to the unknown being from outerspace.
Bet when they invade, they'll walk stiff like that and annoy all of the animators to certain death!
Open your mind, it's a huge universe out there.

[Batatalion]

Hi,

great work on the modeling, texturing and in the light.

I think his walkcycle its very hard, needs more flow.


cheers.

[Mason]

Pass: sci

Thx guys. Is in slow motion, so they can easily be analyzed by the motion.

[Pancho]

A cheap toy roboter might walk this way. Watch "District 9" or "Starship Troopers" for possible walk cycles, Memag. No creature of this kind will walk like that after million years of evolution, except somebody shoved a 50" long stick up his anus. : )

[Memag]

A cheap toy roboter might walk this way. Watch "District 9" or "Starship Troopers" for possible walk cycles, Memag. No creature of this kind will walk like that after million years of evolution, except somebody shoved a 50" long stick up his anus. : )

I was joking Pancho, but my comment was aimed at something else, not animation but human knowledge.
How could YOU possibly know a walkcycle of the extraterrestrial creature when you never saw one?
Maybe there is no evolution outside the Earth, maybe those creatures really walk like that.

If we project known human and animal motion to this creature , sure, it's really awkward and stiff with obvious pauses.
Let's wait a million years ,shall we.

[Mason]

A cheap toy roboter might walk this way. Watch "District 9" or "Starship Troopers" for possible walk cycles, Memag. No creature of this kind will walk like that after million years of evolution, except somebody shoved a 50" long stick up his anus. : )

Schema, you can not think about anything else. Try to create a new creature, do not need to copy others. Of course, not be always good.
Easy to copy, and Difficult to be creative. .

[SreckoM]

A cheap toy roboter might walk this way. Watch "District 9" or "Starship Troopers" for possible walk cycles, Memag. No creature of this kind will walk like that after million years of evolution, except somebody shoved a 50" long stick up his anus. : )

I was joking Pancho, but my comment was aimed at something else, not animation but human knowledge.
How could YOU possibly know a walkcycle of the extraterrestrial creature when you never saw one?
Maybe there is no evolution outside the Earth, maybe those creatures really walk like that.

If we project known human and animal motion to this creature , sure, it's really awkward and stiff with obvious pauses.
Let's wait a million years ,shall we.

As a matter a fact we can. It is not that we and other animals walk like this because we just decided to like that. There are lot of stuff that influenced this, gravity, as less as possible energy waste ... Same could apply on Mars creatures, at least we have some 'idea' what environment looks like there.

[Memag]

As a matter a fact we can. It is not that we and other animals walk like this because we just decided to like that. There are lot of stuff that influenced this, gravity, as less as possible energy waste ... Same could apply on Mars creatures, at least we have some 'idea' what environment looks like there.

Not thinking about the Earth, life forms on Earth and evolution.
I guess it comes down to our collective self-importance and arrogance of all knowing ,godlike beings.
We don't even know all the species that are inhabiting our home planet, we can't possibly know how the universe works?

What if this creature came to Mars to explore?
Have you ever seen astronauts in their ridiculous walk?
Why are they walking like that? So what about that creature?
Maybe it has some kind of exoskeleton, robot space suit that makes it move like that, how can we know that?
Maybe it moves like that to conserve energy, no needles secondary motion?
Maybe it's just a break-dancing species?

I understand that this creature doesn't walk like a human/animal, and that it violates laws, thus it's bad.
But can we say stop-motion animation is bad just because it's not human enough?