From the course: Character Animation: Locomotion

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Animating lower-body poses

Animating lower-body poses

From the course: Character Animation: Locomotion

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Animating lower-body poses

Let's go ahead and look where we're at. We have the feet basically just sliding in place. Now we need to fill in the gaps with a few more poses, and let's go ahead and just work on the lower body and get that in shape. Now the first pose I'm going to work on is called the passing position. When we look at the character from the side, you'll see that in the middle of the first step the feet pass each other. And this is an important pose. So the first thing we're going to do in this pose is we're going to work with the hips. So now as the feet pass each other he's basically extending the leg as high as possible. So basically he's standing up on the weight bearing leg. And let's go ahead and set a key for the hips. So now you can see that basically the hips are moving up and down. So now the weight of the character is going on to the left foot and that foot is supporting him in the middle. Now the right foot is moving forward and it actually is going to be the foot that's off the ground.…

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