Week 1 Task Human Walk Cycle Study

Sunday 8th February 2015 last updated at 13:41pm

Study

Edward Muybridge's 1887
Similar to Edward Muybridge, who used a technique known as freeze-frame to study human and animal locomotion, I will be studying a series of photographs of a walking cycle to gain a deeper perception of human movement, in particular my own.


Then, after successfully importing the footage into Adobe Photoshop and converting it into frames, I deleted a large quantity of the footage since, according to the number of frames in Eadweard Muybridge's animation displayed in The Animator's Survival Kit, a slow-step human animation is 24 frames long, meaning the human would travel by one step a second, which is satisfactory for my taste when comparing it to the edited footage.



Frame 11 Passing Pose

Moreover, after strategically observing my twenty-eight-frame walk cycle, I have come to the conclusion that frame eleven is the passive pose because that is the point in the footage where the left leg rises up, and my body prepares to switch to the right leg.






References

Smithsonian Institution (Friday 20th September 2013). Freeze Frame: Edward Muybridge's Photography of Motion. [ONLINE] Available at: http://americanhistory.si.edu/muybridge/. [Last Accessed Sunday 8th February 2015].


By Sebastian Jones

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