Walk Cycles

Walk Cycle

The first poses to start with: Contact and passing.

Duplicate the contact and passing poses and Reverse the feet and arms

Then add the up and down poses

These stages are your key poses and you will start with this process when you rotoscope too.

Timmy in a crouch to stand pose on Mixamo

Using characters that are already built, you can find actions that you can move the camera to find the best staging.

Mixamo is an Adobe tool that is fully online. Just log in with your adobe log in.

You can build your main pose to poses and then add secondary action after you have built the main action.

Find a character that is close enough to your character's body type
Type in Walk in the search.
There are many walk animation sequences to choose from, crouching, drunk, happy, backward, turning, etc.
Find the camera angle that matches your storyboard

Export your walk cycle
You can rotoscope over the animation sequence to help learn the frame-by-frame animation method.
Still start with the key poses.
Then decide which in-betweens to do

Run Cycle Animation applied to the standard rig in Mixamo

Run Cycle Animation applied to the standard rig in Mixamo Run Animation sequence done with rotoscoping by Arthur Muzzin

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