Walking cycle animation

Learn how to bring your characters to life with a dynamic walking cycle animation. Explore expert tips and tricks to add realism and fluidity to your animations.
Walking Animation, 3d Karakter, Walk Cycle, Learn Animation, Animation Storyboard, Richard Williams, How To Walk, Character Animation, Animation Sketches

For my basic walk cycle i followed Penny's Blog and also used "Richard Williams- the Animator's Survival Guide' they were both very helpful and useful to my final walk cycle. I did the walk cycle about 4 times before getting it perfect. Here's one of my failed examples After this attempt i had 3 more goes at trying to get my walk looking normal so i payed closer attention to the richard williams book. And drew out rough sketches of what the poses, just because it helped me understand them…

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Yang Xiao
Jump Reference, Animation Principles, Animation Walk Cycle, Jump Animation, Circle Animation, Stickman Animation, Running Pose, Walking Animation, Walk Cycle

I wanted to look back at my animation books for reference of how to create a run and walk cycle. I have been looking in The Illusion of Life, The Animator’s Survival Guide and Timing for Animation mostly as they are the clearest about the positions. I realise that these images are for traditional animation and that in Maya it is necessary to not make the poses as extreme as they will either break the rig or not look natural and this will ruin the suspension of disbelief in the characters. f…

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Eric Royal