
Hi, I was thinking today about an easy way to teach how to make a good walk, with constant velocity and no sliding feet. I finally got the idea of making a simple and easy to use moving rule.
You can download it here (it's a vector layer inside a group)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/54411/AS8/Walk%20ruler/walk%20ruler.anme
Thanks to Hayasidist we now have the ruler for AS 7 too :), you can download the file here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/54411/AS8/Walk%20ruler/walkruler_7.anme
It works very good and I'll definitively use it for my own projects. The principle is simple: it's a rule which is moving at constant speed and you adapt your character's feet to it.
You only need to move and scale the rule in frame one to make the red lines touch the character heels.
You can easily change the speed of the rule to make slower or faster walks.
Anyway, it's better you see it in action, so I created a video tutorial showing how to use the ruler:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/54411/AS8/Walk%20ruler/walk%20ruler%20presentation.mov