Wednesday, May 14, 2008

zombie

A zombie effect can be achieved easily when you combine the pin tool with the link tool. The setup is just like the "pushing wheelchair" topic covered in an earlier post, the plan is to create a sphere for each wrist. place the sphere on the wrist and the pin the wrist to the sphere. Now if you link/attach the sphere's to the character then the arm animation will be overwritten (made void). If you place the spheres away from the body then the arms can be set to extebd forward just like a zombie. My favorite zombie films are....I am Legend, 28 days and Shaun of the Dead. Have fun!!



Oh, btw, I got the texture maps from the web, and the character is a cowboy (you may want to experiment with different walk cycles for the character and slower durations in the timeline).


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2 comments:

Ricky Lee Grove said...

Great tip. Thanks! Oh, that poor cowboy model. Home on the plains, indeed.

Unknown said...

Thanks Tony! I liked I am Legend as well... I wasn't expecting it to be so scary! I'd recommend using the Drunk Walk on the Zombies. It works like a charm!