28 walk

• Once you have set up your new project with the library intact using the project name of walk, goto insert>new symbol

Make the new symbol a graphic and name it the character's name his/her mood walk (eg. Mr Hagrave's sad walk)

To start your walk cycle you will need a minimum of four frames.

Draw the first position

Insert a blank keyframe and draw position two. Use onion skin to make sure you are drawing the new position right on top of the old.

Don't start refining your drawings until you are happy with the whole motion. It is easy to modify gesture drawings but much harder once you have invested time.

Insert a blank keyframe and draw position three, the more regular frames you have between the keyframes the slower the action looks, so if the legs go too fast add a few frames to each position, if it looks too slow remove a frame or two from each position

• And then the fourth

• • Put the walk into the timeline in your scene and test it.

  • Add a tween to see it move