Walk Cycle Animation Work Areas

Video Transcript

"All right, this is Cable for Expert Village. In this clip, we're starting prepare our work for our walk cycle frames. So what we need to do is set a piece of animation paper on our light box. It doesn't need to be on yet. And to make sure that our character doesn't get cut off around the edge of the screen, go ahead and draw a line around about two inches, one and half of the top and bottom, two inches on the side, it doesn't have to be exact. And this will be your TV safe area here. Anything inside this line will be out of danger from being cut off from any monitors. Now also, go ahead and draw a line that represents the ground level on which your character's feet will make contact. And also draw a vertical line that will line up with the middle of the character. Because this is walk cycle, your character will stay in the middle of the page and walk, just like this, meanwhile, the background will move behind it. And this guide will stay underneath your frames that you will draw so that you can keep your character centered in the page from frame to frame. So draw a horizontal center line, a ground line, and go ahead and draw a TV safe area here."