Running animation help needed

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Cubed Inc.(Posted 2011) [#1]
hey guys
I know that I have posted like 20 posts asking about making animations, but i'm a very "asky" person.

I took some your guy's advice such as recording myself and looking at it frame by frame, but it didn't work out to well.

I then tried looking and studying the animations of professionals and in real games.

In this case, I was studying the running animations in Kingdom Hearts. I am attemping to recreate the running animation of sora. Here's the link of 2 videos where sora (the boy) can be seen running the most.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5HADV0hJM4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sweN95fPUb0

I have been repeatedly watching these videos and many other ones so I can study and see what was put into the animations, but I'm still having alot of trouble with it, primarily the motion of his arms and legs.

Does anyone have any ideas of how to properly create the running motions of his body?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks

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Ian Thompson(Posted 2011) [#2]
Get the book "The Animators Survival Kit" by Richard Williams, this specific run animation is in it, as are most of the Disneyesque animation techniques that K.H. uses.


Cubed Inc.(Posted 2011) [#3]
ehh...I was considering until I saw the price of the set...

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Ian Thompson(Posted 2011) [#4]
You don't need the DVDs+Books set, just his early reference book...

See... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Animators-Survival-Kit-Principles-Stop-motion/dp/0571202284


Cubed Inc.(Posted 2011) [#5]
Ian Thompson
Do you know where I can buy it in the united states?
That one is from the UK.


Ian Thompson(Posted 2011) [#6]
http://www.amazon.com/Animators-Survival-Kit-Principles-Stop-motion/dp/0571202284


GfK(Posted 2011) [#7]
Ian Thompson
Do you know where I can buy it in the united states?
That one is from the UK.
amazon.com would be the obvious answer.


Cubed Inc.(Posted 2011) [#8]
GfK
Well yeah, I guess I wasn't thinking right when I posted thatXD