{"id":38857,"date":"2025-01-21T00:23:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T00:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animation\/acme-punched-a-2d-animation-blog-no-192-the-walk-cycle-completed\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T00:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T00:23:57","slug":"acme-punched-a-2d-animation-blog-no-192-the-walk-cycle-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=38857","title":{"rendered":"Acme Punched! A 2D Animation Blog: No. 192: The Walk Cycle Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-6398726212491680756\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<h3>\nThe story so far&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>Last time I showed you the first version pencil test where I had mainly focused on the legs and feet. Here is the promised version two, featuring the final hand and arm action.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Old Man walk cycle- 2\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dsBckTCpfC4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nYet this was still only half the work, as the remaining 8 inbetweens had yet to be done.\u00a0 And are these straight inbetweens, with every line or point on the inbetween\u00a0 halfway between the two corresponding lines or points on the drawings it connects? The answer is, certainly not.\u00a0 At the extremes, there are ease-in or ease-out spacings, and also certain of these &#8220;simpler&#8221; inbetween drawings may even have a useful eccentricity to them.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a good example of that.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjm31PAY0uvUBb4F5j_hFAnlFah64AQv8Xq73vY99DqsacZFHTxt97J55EUHl1AFqocBlz_POKKYZQcetY3s_6-GsdIBdSNUvMeoWjHTMH9y6HJvh5wLFta1N-uqlFFdhDuu4ixx6fg1rs\/s1600\/IMG_6068.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjm31PAY0uvUBb4F5j_hFAnlFah64AQv8Xq73vY99DqsacZFHTxt97J55EUHl1AFqocBlz_POKKYZQcetY3s_6-GsdIBdSNUvMeoWjHTMH9y6HJvh5wLFta1N-uqlFFdhDuu4ixx6fg1rs\/s400\/IMG_6068.JPG\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Example in which an inbetween [in red] is not a straight<br \/>inbetween but an eccentric one.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Watch for that little one-drawing, two-frame accent here in the final pencil test. 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