Waving at the screen.

Maybe something like a victory pose from Overwatch?
Or a character jumping in / out of bed? scareing the others?
If you want more help feel free to note me so we can maybe discuss the ideas back and fourth? :D

Short simple dancing loop

Walk cycle. As all the parts are then moving in concert. or walk Cycle paired with a rotation so you can see all the movement. 8 steps equals one full rotation?

With some of the new tricks I've learned I think I could put together an interactive turntable / a walk cycle in one file... perhaps limited views, but it can be possible.. Perhaps I try a run-Cycle this time.

Did you have a preferred character in my gallery you would like to see?

Ohh, I get to pick? either Phina, or Ruby, please. XD

I scrapped the animation, I really shouldn't post incomplete work. The timing of a run cycle seems a bit more advanced than I'm able to pull off.

I'll need to stidy better references and fix the flaws first.

No Need to scrap it. There are a number of decent youtube tutorials on how to set up cycles. The best printed reference is the Richard Williams book, The Animator's Survival Kit. What you had though was a good first draft. Hope to see you continue with her.

Oh, it's not deleted, only taken down until I can give proper justice to her movements. Having only attempted rough animation a few times with no formal training, I have a ways to go yet.

She's intended to be very smooth and graceful in her movements, somewhat athletic and surprisingly light to pick her up. Improvements will be made until she's closer to how she's supposed to look. I guess I set my deadline too short.

I've located and ordered the book you've reccomended from Amazon.

You had mentioned soft body physics.. I looked into it for blender, quite simply vertex weighting with some physics adjustments, looks easy enough to apply for automatic secondary animation and overlap.. having some automatic animation in the body would help reveal if the body is being pushed at an unnatural speed.

Perhaps I should give the girls a competition to see who had the softest bodies. Though I'm trying to come up with a cause for them. then again this is FA... May as well just go full out bounce till one of them gets knocked out by her own breasts.

Too much is too much in those cases, as there is a difference between a firm bounce or jiggle and floppy water balloons. Treat the bounce as a spice, rather than a coniment ot the main course. Here is the link to the German fellow's Tumblr http://ellowas.tumblr.com/ A friend pointed me at that in a note related to Copyright arguements, but I found the quality of his rigging and animations to be nearly professional level. He works in Maya and 3ds Max (as do I)< so his advice, and tutorials may be of limited value, but the concepts should transfer to Blender.

See if Blender has anything related to a muscle system, or has anything for "jiggle controllers" to handle the dynamics of large muscle groups when a foot impacts the ground. That was one of the big innovations before dedicated muscle systems.

Not much in blender for physics based rigging.. although possible, much of it is workaround type hacks that involve proxy objects, such as a couple of stiff vertexes with a cloth simulation applied.. then and "empty" bound to a vertex, then a bone parented to the empty.. awkward and complicated.. but useful for the creative thinking types.

Enjoying these exchanges XD.. You may be overthinking it a little, When I did game animation, things like breast bounce and hair were usually extra bones (clleverly weighted), but controlled with a spline that had simple dynamics applied to it, and it worked well enough. It just took a bit of trial and error to get it to look appropriate for the scale, and firmness of the material.

I was successful in applying soft body physics to her bare bust with a very good and quite realistic result. However the clothes present their own physics that doesn't match the underlaying model.

As expected, her breasts bounce somewhat more heavily than the shirt and then clips through it. Remove the underlaying breast geometry and the shirt just doesn't have enough mass and geometry to bounce in quite the same way on its own.. cloth simulation works, but appears very floaty.. like springy layer of air is being pumped underneath, and the fabric never really rests upon the surface of the model.. a few cycles of animation and she's happily running around butt naked again .. just can't keep clothes on that girl.

I'm going to try creating a Jiggle Bone to drive the existing breast bones already in the rig.

This indicates to me, that Blender's cloth simulation does not accept collision or friction from outside objects. Generally a good cloth simulation will inherit the weighting of the skin on which it is riding withing a certain (short) distance). SO a tight sweater over a character's breasts shoulb bounce with them, and skirts or pants will hug the hips but act with cloth dynamics at the hems, and collide with the legs they coover. The Downside is that the Physics simulation calculation will slow machinnes to a crawl and have flames come off the processor.

It also sounds like the physics calcuation on your cloth simulations is nnot robust enough to force the cloth to not permit the limbs to clip through and break the simulation. If you are getting "air". it maybe the cloth attributes have insufficient weight/density? How was the cloth simulation done in the recent Blender Project short films?

You may have to "fake it" the way game models do, with Tight clothing copying the skin weights of the underlying skin, and only skirts and cape having cloth simulation, or bones with dynamics.

Though no clothes at all, as a bit of an appeal.

Further experiments with cloth sim in blender...

It does factor collision and friction, but doesn't really look at what's happening nearby physics wise.

Close fitting clothes seem to be where things break down. I found the setting in the cloth sim causing the offset. Cloth seems to be baggy, doesn't move quite the way I'm expecting and quickly gives the poor girl a wedgie... Revealing everything.

I found a better solution within the soft body calculations, by merging her cloths mesh with her body mesh into one, the physics then seems to share relative mass, then with self collision enabled solves the clipping issue. only the clothing areas that need to move can be weighted to move, everything else follows the rig... weights can be adjusted for her collar and shoulder straps to pull nicely, to contain her breasts. The Soft body of her clothes and the breasts will compresses her nipple in a realistic way, whereas cloth sim simply drapes over it in a very pronounced way.

Soft body also calculates far far far faster than cloth sim, real-time without self collision, and 12fps with the self collision enabled. The clothing is considered to be part of the body for physics, yet is separate enough to move freely on its own where desired.

So, cloth sim for very loose, big clothes and capes.. soft body for tight fitting second-skin clothes that follow the body shape and movement.

Well, you seem to have a good handle, now on the rig. Let's look back at animation. Here are two of a set of proposed tutorials by the French Animator "Felix Sputnik":

https://vimeo.com/108673820
Building structured Walk Cycles

https://vimeo.com/70252506
A Strip Tease routine.

Hopefully these will help

I've received the book you had recommended today, Now to study it.

Find a comfy chair, and see you in a month. XD

I worked with 3ds max many years ago... 15 years I think, back when I had a student version in college.

Even then it's "biped" rigging was so automated it was almost silly easy to create the rig and walk animation.. blender is quite advanced and flexible, but starts to show its limits as you get deeper into it.. sadly missing any easy such convince features as muscle groups.. I'm stuck with creating my own sad approximation with shape keys and "drivers"

Yes, I didn't intend for "too much", it simply a silly comment when thinking about common physics applied some of the more exceedingly well endowed female characters to be found on FA.. I intended more along the lines of emphasized movement or cartoonish over acting.... My goal is to be more honest with the girls.. give them cause and reason to be doing what they're doing, and keep things well within realistic limits.

do punching then a round house kick.

2 character fight.. possible, but may be hard to get right without motion capture. there is subtle balancing and weight of the body to consider. May need some reference video.

But fighting, ready, jumping, punch and kick animations are certainly a good idea to try.. especially with something like a fighting game.

Do some buttshaking animations.