Walk Cycle Tutorial

Video 1
Introduction to the tutorial

Videos 2 & 3

Set up the key frames in the second video and then started working on the contact positions of the character in video 3

Video 4

Finished the contact positions and set up a middle keyframe

Video 5

Added the down position

Video 6

Worked on the extremes of the walk and used play blast to see how the walk was progressing

Video 7

Refined the feet

Video 8

Balanced the figure from the front by adjusting his foot placement

Video 9

Animated the rotation of the feet to make the movement more realistic

Video 10

worked on the toe flap

Video 11

Adjusted the weight of the hips and tilted them some.

Video 12

Adjusted the upper body's rotation

Video 13

Worked on the rotations of the chest a bit more

Video 14

Animated the head

Video 15

Adjusted the arm's motions

Video 16

Finished working on the upper arm movement

Video 17

Worked on the follow through of the elbows

Video 18

Worked on the follow through for the wrists

Video 19

Finished the wrists

Video 20

Refined the shoulders

Video 21

Delayed some curves and adjusted some others to refine the model's movement.

Video 22

Translated the walk cycle forward

Video 23

Used animation layers to make the walk cycle more realistic.

Video 24

Smoothed the character with a custom attribute and then made a playblast in case it was needed.