In this week, I have kept working on polishing the weight shift and the walk cycle.
First of all, for the walk cycle, I have made the movement of the body looking more fluent, by following the note given by the lecturer:
I then add toe roll to one of the feet in this walking cycle:
To achieve the fluent knee bend of the animation, I have decrease and increase the rotation X between the down pose and the up pose:
By adjusting the foot position, I try to let the movement to build up curves:
I will wait to receive more feedback from this Friday.
For the weight shift I have mainly checked the starting point of the hip to follow the movement of the feet and the distance of them, I tried to adjust the graph editor to make the movement more fluent:
In Tuesday night, I have also went to the event of Siggraph and receiving feedback from other industrial animators, have noticed I shouldn’t let the movement of it suddenly stopped at the middle, but keep the curve fluent in the graph editor: