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2D Animation: Walk Cycles Basics

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn how to create a walk cycle for 2D animation. This tutorial is appropriate for all levels of animators, using any software.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Using the exercise files
1. Basics of Walks
  • The poses: Contact, down, passing, and high point
  • Timing and frame rates
  • Animate in place vs. across the screen
2. Animate a Profile Walk
  • Create the contact pose
  • Create the passing, low, and high poses
  • Arcs, spacing, and inbetweens
  • Animate the walk in place
  • Troubleshoot the arcs
  • Move from a stand to a walk
  • Move from a walk to a stand
3. Animate Front View Walk
  • Create the contact pose
  • Create the passing, low, and high poses
  • Create the inbetweens
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Dermot O' Connor

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