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Hi everyone I am really struggling to get my Dinosaur to walk in the correct way I’ve tried so much but I’m litterally at my wits end with it now.
Has anybody got any tutorials on how to do a walking animation? I’m using the Cryolophosaurus model from DinoRaul and I’m using daz studio 4 pro.

Chears, Ian.

Find a video of an animal walking.  You will notice that the right rear and left front work together and that the right front and left rear work together.  That is how I got going on my milcat walk cycle.

Chears I’ll give this ago, do you also know of any tutorials of an animal walk cycle as that would help alot.

I am sorry, but I know of no tuts.  When I started my milcat walk project I was in the same position.  Use basic animation principles and realize that if you make a mistake, that you can delete the keyframe.  I would work on one set of two legs at a time.  Right front and left rear for example.  You can add the head and neck and tail movements after you have gotten the leg movements down.  Here is a link to a slow motion of a horse walking on youtube.  This should help a little bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC6kj0sqEjs&playnext=1&list=PLFD8F40F93378FFC3&feature=results_video

Thanks for the link I’ll take a look at it.
That’s a shame you’d a thought there would of been wouldn’t you. I’ve noticed the Dinosaur joints are abit more complex to more than small animals do you know anyone who has done a dino animation at all or not?

A search at youtube turns up these animations of dinosaurs walking.  There may be some good information here and a tut or two.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dinosaur+walking+animation&oq=dinosaur+walking+animation&gs_l=youtube-reduced.3..0.881195.886033.0.886871.26.14.0.12.12.0.214.1968.4j9j1.14.0…0.0…1ac.1.fJnp28490kM

I’ll take a look thanks for the help

Hi I’ve been trying on this walk cycle and still having trouble, I’ve been using each leg 1sec a frame as each large Dino would take that lengh of time to place it’s foot on the ground.
I have actually seen an aniblock pack that has walking and running for a dragon 2 legs and 4 legs animation, do you recon that would work for a Dinosaur model?

Chears, Ian.

I love aniblocks!  They would probably work depending on how close the dinosaur bones are to the dragon’s bones.

Right I’ll give that ago then.
I have some good news I’ve mastered 1 step of the walk animation but for some strange reason when I start to move the 2nd leg and animate and replay it both legs seem to move at the same time at not when they are supose to. How did you do it on your cat animation without this issue?

Chears, Ian.

Without a movie or at least some screen shots of your setup, I cannot begin to guess what the problem might be.

for some reason it won’t let my post a video clip it keeps sticking on the load section any chance you can send me your email address through a PM and I send it you that way be alot easier 4 me, chears.

You are having a problem because you are trying to do keyframe animation on the ANIBLOCK TIMELINE.  You need to bring up your DAZStudio animation timeline and do your keyframing there.  The aniblock timeline is only for working on the aniblocks.

Chears, I’ve replied to your email you sent me is this timeline where you can create your own aniblocks too as well as just doing animation?

Here’s a old one I did using DS to set up animation and rendered in Carrara - link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkTlOUitVhY&feature=share&list=UUSDQPl5q0QoWh0fIj9dXMpg

Yes you can make an aniblock out of the daz timeline animation.