Walk a Day - Day 6!

Today's walk is heavily leaned back but still being a bit light on the feet.

Head - mostly leaned back with a little bit of back and forth

Chest - puffed out and leaned back to continue the flow of the line of action from the main foot

Hips - a little up and down and rotate to push the movement forward

Arms - fairly straight with slight exaggeration on the extreme forward and back keys

Hands - rotated outward to add more of an emphasis on being light and unobtrusive 

Feet - slip a bit with a light toe landing on each step

Walk a Day - Day 5!

Today's walk is a propeller arms walk!
Head - a little bit of a bob with a slight turn on each arm spin
Chest - slight hunch to a light puff giving it a little bit of contrast and rubbery movement
Hips - a bit of rotation to offset the movement of the chest and lots of side to side rotation
Arms - big propeller like loops a bit of broken joints and drag to give the movement a bit more fluidity
Hands - a little bit of overlap and drag to embellish the overall arm movement
Feet - light bounce and a 1 frame foot slap to give the step a bit more pop

Walk a Day - Day 4!

Today's walk is an Angry Chug!
Head -  pretty straight forward with slight up and down brought on by the shoulders
Chest - hunched with a bit of give to allow for heavy breathing
Hips - slight thrust and rotate focused forward to balance out the curvature of the chest
Arms - never really straighten out always bent on the forearm don't overlap backward too much to keep focus on the forward movement
Hands - tight fists with a little give throughout to allow for non rigidity overlap and drag on the wrists.
Feet - a bit of pound on the steps by adding a bit of backwards rotate and large spacing between the frame before the step and the step

Walk a Day - Day 3!

Today's walk is a proud march!
Head - Chin up focus forward
Chest - Puffed out with slight up and down
Hips - pretty vanilla with a bit of angle to support the chest
Arms - lots of swing on the forearm
Hands - swing forward to a fist and back to a relaxed open palm
Feet - very straight leg heavy with a high foot plant slight overlap on the toe

Walk a Day - Day 2!

Walk a Day - Day 2!

Today's walk is a bit down, exhausted, and heavy.
Head - focused on the ground slight up and down
Chest - focused down subtle breathing
Hips - slight turn on each step
Arms - mostly sedated
Hands - little overlap on the wrists
Feet - mainly on the ground with quick labored heavy steps and a bit of floppy rotation and toes

Walk a Day

Walk a Day

Sorry for not posting for so long, but I've been working on this idea for a while. It's called walk a day. For the last few months I have challenged myself (and kept up with it) to do 48 frames a day. It doesn't have to be perfect and polished, but just a walk that works mechanically and endeavors to delve into the interesting and fascinating world of walks.

I know what you're thinking... walks... what is so interesting about a walk. Well, I dare say you can tell almost everything about a person by the way they walk. If you see your friend walking up the path toward your house you can instantly tell what kind of a mood they are in. You may not be able to know all the intricacies of why they are in that mood, but you can absolutely tell if they are happy, sad, angry, depressed you can also tell what kind of energy level the person is running at are they lethargic, energetic, just got off a 14 hour work day... Okay so you can tell a persons mood, and energy level, so what! Well, that's not all! You can also tell if a person is hurting or suffers from pain, by the way they carry their weight, are they bigger and take heavy labored steps, did they get in a car accident when they were in their 20s that changed the way they can put weight on their hip? You can also make a fairly educated guess at how old a person is by the way they walk. Now I'm not talking like 21 or 22, but rather if a person is an infant, a toddler, a teen an adult, an elderly woman who makes the best cookies ever (okay you may not be able to tell that she can make the best cookies ever by the way she walks ... unless she is carrying a tray of cookies with her as she walks).

I digress... walks are fascinating to me.
Hope I can impart just a little bit about what makes every person's walk so unique to your daily life and maybe next time when you're walking down the Huntington Beach Pier (or local people watching venue) you'll take an extra moment to stop and stare at the way someone walks and see if you can estimate a guess about the person behind the walk.

Today's walk is a bit of a forarm heavy walk.
little bit of up and down on the hips
the wrists are a bit exaggerated
the head bobs a little excessively but to a beat as if he were listening to a good 70's funk ballad
the heels of the feet flop a bit
and the knees need at least a few polishing passes :P

Thanks again for taking a moment to stop and think about the magic of a walk, and I hope you enjoy the new walk a day series.

~ Casey

Moving!

Holy Moly!

I haven't had time to update this thing in forever.
So...

I got married...
Had to quit school..
Ran a 2.4 million dollar retail store...

More life happened...

Now I'm moving back to CA..

Guess that means I might have time to update this thing again!

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~ Casey