Frame by Frame

Upon starting making the frames for my walk cycle it was pretty clear that it was going to be a lot more than 6 steps. It took me like a thousand frames to get to my original frame 3. And boy did it get messy.

I drew up another rough plan for the steps Uhrr was going to move in. The triangle-y shapes in the corner are Hugh's drawings because he told me to try doing the steps in Illustrator in segments, rather than free transforming them in photoshop, which was the original plan.

Of course I ignored the Illustrator idea to begin with, simply because I prefer photoshop as a program. SHOULD'VE LISTENED! Frame 1 totally went to plan. Uhrr just sitting there, being great:By frame 8 he was starting to look a little fuzzy around the edges from being poked and prodded and transformed so much, but you know, it was pretty managable I guess - his basic shape was still there, so I could just clean up the lines after:
At frame 11 things were getting pretty ugly. Blurring, distortion, fading lines:
And then there was frame 15, where I finally called it a day and let the photoshop attempt at the walk cycle rest in it's mangled grave. I don't really think I need to explain why:Then I had this crazy idea. Why not do it in Illustrator! Ohoho. So smart. So here's Uhrr all in the segments I was working with:

And look at frame 8, 11 and 15 in comparison:

frame 8

frame 11

frame 15

And yeahyeah, I know what you're thinking. "Hey buddy, the parts don't even match up on those ones. Nice work, Einstein." Well thanks, but I already knew that. I drew over the lines so they DID match up.

frame 8

frame 11

frame 15

Beaudiful.