How to approach animation of short legged characters?
Does anyone have any tips on how best to animate a short legged minifigure walking? Obviously the short legs are rigid and can't be made to walk in the standard way. How do people work around this, with hopping? By not showing anything below the waist?
I was thinking of using long legs, and perhaps squashing them in post, or trying to get away with not showing that character moving on screen...
Any thoughts on this are appreciated.
Posted May 16, 2017, 2:34 PM UTC
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I would go with either carefully animated hopping, or something a little fancier.
The swinging arms really sell the hopping... but I can't work out what's happening in the other clip! Unless they are using other bricks in place of the leg piece?
Yep, they swapped the legs out for slope pieces.
I just took a nostalgia trip diving through Brickfilms.com looking for the tutorial the creators wrote around the time the film came out, but turned up nothing. A lot of the image host sites people used to use aren't around anymore...