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Animating character walk cycles is easy! This free online video lesson about animation will teach you everything you need to know, from work areas to keyframes and more and is taught by animation expert Cable Hardin.
There are 16 videos in this series:
What is walk cycle animation and what is it used for? Learn about this efficiency technique in animation; learn this and more in this free online art video about animation taught by an expert animator.
Materials you'll need for creating your walk cycle animation, from light boxes to pencils; learn this and more in this free online art video about animation taught by an expert animator.
Keeping your character to be animated as simple as possible for efficiency in walk cycle animation; learn this and more in this free online art video about animation taught by an expert animator.
Understanding the character you're drawing and how their walk depicts those qualities; learn this and more in this free online art video about animation taught by an expert animator.
Identifying the Contact, Recoil, Passing, and High Point of both the first and second stride for walk cycle animation; learn this and more in this free online art video about animation taught by an expert animator.
How to prep your paper on a light box and establish a ground line for your walk cycle animation; learn this and more in this free online art video about animation taught by an expert animator.
Numbering your key frames for references and making those keyframe rough drawings; learn this and more in this free online art video about animation taught by an expert animator.
How to add the arms on the second pass once your first pass with legs is complete in walk cycle animation; learn this and more in this free online art video about animation taught by an expert animator.
How to trace over no only your guide sheet but your previous key frame in walk cycle animation; learn this and more in this free online art video about animation taught by an expert animator.
How to test your first set of keyframes you've created for your walk cycle animation
Cleaning up your frames by adding real detail to your figure in your walk cycle animation; learn this and more in this free online art video about animation taught by an expert animator.
Testing to check for glitches in your walk cycle animation and how to fix mistakes; learn this and more in this free online art video about animation taught by an expert animator.
How to add more detail to you walk cycle animation by adding frames between your keyframes; learn this and more in this free online art video about animation taught by an expert animator.
Viewing your final rough walk cycle animation caught on ones and twos and seeing what has the best flow; learn this and more in this free online art video about animation taught by an expert animator.
inking your walk cycle animation to make lines of your figure clean and distinct and repeating for all frames; learn this and more in this free online art video about animation taught by an expert animator.
Placing a background behind your walk cycle animation to see if it looks like its moving; learn this and more in this free online art video about animation taught by an expert animator.
A walk cycle is a sequence of frames representing a walk movement (usually human). Walk cycles are important because when a walking person appears in an animation, the walk cycle simply can be looped over and over, without having to animate each step again. For a human walk cycle, poses like passing point, high point, contact point and recoil point are identified as important frames that define the walk. Besides the apparent movement of the legs, other details are necessary for a convincing walk cycle, like arms, head and movement of the whole body.
In this free video series on walk cycle animation, our expert will show you how to design characters for walk cycles, how to film reference footage, and how to keyframe in walk cycle animation. This step by step process will breakdown the process into an easy-to-follow demonstration. Step up your animating skills with this free video!
Cable Hardin Cable Hardin has been making films and animations for more than 20 years. With a specialty in 2D digital animation and a background in film production, Cable also teaches animation and interactive media in the Visual Arts Department at South Dakota State University in Brookings, S.D. He continues to create content for commercials, the web, broadcast and festival venues.dkdk
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