3D Tutorial: Walk Cycles - Doodley

[@doodley3d]

Hello! I was very busy during May, but I’m back to working on Doodley stuff, with the 100k Q&A next up around mid-June. (Yes, I realize how quickly that number is becoming outdated, I have no idea what’s happening 💀) This video is sort of an experiment. While the big main videos I’ve been doing are my biggest priority and passion as they are easy to approach compared to working in a program, they take a lot of work. My hope is more in-depth tutorials like these can fill in the gaps between the fancy main videos, with the goal to eventually do entire character modeling and rigging program tutorials. Tutorials for Autodesk Maya in particular are lacking in a way that I hope to fix. I’ve also been getting help with editing, like this video which is edited by JandroAlem! Check out his channel here: www.youtube.com/@JandroAlem As always, thank you for the support and let me know what you think!

[@Obsidian_Knight]

First it's 26 seconds ago for me

[@elmongolxd8081]

I would like you to make a video for the physics of the characters such as hair physics or also ragdolls Edit: and speaking of questions and answers, how long does it take you to do these jobs? And what is the name of the character you use for your videos?

[@Tree_Oakens]

I watch these for fun, however someday when I try it I know exactly who to go to!

[@carlitos9613]

Awesome video! i really needed it, i was having some weir results on the cycles, they always looked too much "robotic" I think

[@Charles12]

How come you changed the Henry Selick video thumbnail and removed James and Dark Town?

[@itsmeallimocha]

Man I can’t explain how much I love Gimberly’s design. It’s so simple yet the details that are there really do bring it all together. I’m not considering doing 3d animation ever, yet it’s amazing how your tutorials can also help me with other types of animation indirectly! Keep up the good work!

[@aroonus1050]

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[@El.fish.the.chocolate]

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[@StebotHere]

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[@RiiftApart]

I’ll probably never actually animate something, much less in 3-D, but watching your videos is almost like watching someone hold a more practical TED Talk about Astrophysics. There is something very intriguing between your scripts and your character designs, and we are right here for it. Keep it up!

[@LazaLazy]

That’s what I’m saying!

[@alexcostsnothin]

Doodley uploaded? *Today's a good day.*

[@blueperry6465]

To be not dead? 💀

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[@Two_Teapod]

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[@Kakhi.]

I cannot overstate how amazing these videos are for someone starting out with 3D animation. Your processes and teaching methods are broken down so perfectly for people to understand and the overall quality and smoothness of the editing is so beautiful and easy to follow. Thank you so much for inspiring so many people, including myself!

[@MeloniestNeon]

Man, when I finally stop being lazy and start making games, these tutorials will be great for learning 3D animation! A lot of what you talk about also applies to 2D, from what I can tell, so the basic principals will help there too! Keep up the good work!

[@JandroAlem]

Thank you for making things like this for people. It's massively helpful to have content like this coming from someone as encouraging as you, so looking forward to seeing more!

[@HeisenbergFam]

Doodley casually coming back with the milk after a month is a beautiful sight to behold

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa9681]

the fact that its 45 minutes too..

[@Theonewithaplanz]

Walter… I see you… FUCKING EVERYWHERE

[@SnicklefritzdoesYT]

Unoriginal comment

[@save02]

hi again

[@paweuuu27]

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[@CyborKat]

I am so glad I found your channel, I struggled with finding out the true basics of how rigging works.

[@Axelpvz2030]

Well, you could animate your character walking, or just make them float forward menacingly while t posing

[@LadCorazon]

These videos have been incredibly wornderful with demystifying 3d animation! As a small time 2d animator, learning 3d has been difficult to wrap my head around. Definitely hitting the bell icon! ❤

[@JNSStudios2]

Thanks to this tutorial I can finally teach myself how to walk, thank you Doodley

[@zer0synd1cate]

9:15 GIMBERLY GRIDDY

[@gameplayz5174]

How dare you say such a thing

[@austinfreestone5793]

I would love to see more tutorials like this! I am working on animations in school and these explain things a lot! so any more tutorials would be amazing

[@TotosDev]

I started rigging a few months back and i'm looking at this respectfully 👀👀👀

[@jayfoo]

Babe wake up, new Doodley video

[@victoriouswinner7745]

I appreciate the 24/7 doodley cam. It’s great

[@scoruluce]

Please continue your videos, they are awesome!

[@derwkASDF]

it’s 4am, I have my year 12 final exams in 3 days, but we are currently watching every single video despite never intending or having animated. Something about this is really just like watching a cartoon more than a tutorial. keep up the good work 👍

[@siyounglee9491]

RAHHH BOUTTA GO NUTS quality as always!

[@norii_porii999]

Your a good animation teacher, I'm not even a 3d animator but I find this interesting

[@neilblackwell8026]

I’m so happy doodles is gaining traction he’s so charming with his tutorials. Keep it up man.

[@_lexi]

i love your channel so much! your videos are the most comprehensive AND entertaining videos on animation that i have EVER seen. you are incredible!

[@yeehawmcfly1794]

hey, that's my brother lol 0:12

[@eggfryedrice.]

i had let out a literal ‘WOOOOOO’ when i saw the notification for the new doodly vid. im in love with your videos.

[@gaconhair]

Wow your animations are very smooth and high quality good work man

[@kleveronefourthreetwo]

My new favorite animation channel! Good job, Doodley!

[@belle4952]

This was an amazing guide for my animation walk cycle, thank you so much Doodley!

[@mrman4318]

I don’t even do 3D animation but I still watch these videos because their so entertaining

[@Eldritch-weirdass]

As someone who eventually wants to get into 3d animation, your vids are like the best tutorials ive found lol keep up the good work >:D

[@Banagnum]

I just realized how helpful this is after finding this getting into game animation, thanks doodley, very cool

[@HuntsoOFFICAL]

i love doodley coming back!

[@Mittzys]

Thank you very much! Helped me to get the fundamentals down.

[@Sylvrn]

I design for animation professionally but I haven't really animated anything since university-watching your videos plus the new animation program Procreate has announced is actually getting me excited to try animating again! Thanks for making your stuff and sharing it, your chill style is so nice to watch and your passion for animation is infectious (｡^ᴗ^ )

[@TheInfiniteAmo]

That's it? That's the lost episode? THAT WAS JUST A BUNCHA CHEAP WALK CYCLES!

[@IStoleUrKneeCaps]

i dont 3d animate or anything but still love watching you explain :) its very fun to watch your fluid animation!

[@Porplefish]

Watching this makes me want to learn how to set up better animation controllers!! Really informative, thankyou so much

[@littleelliecove]

I actually animate on Alight Motion right now 😭... And since I do my options to animate smoothly are limited. Videos like these are very helpful even if my options are super limited, I have to use a squish effect on the legs and torso and head called, "Scale Assist" to have some sort of weight on my character and make walking look more cartoony, because then the torso looks locked in place with the world while the arms and legs are just randomly swinging. I pretty much have to create the illusion my animation isn't animated on such an app but it is inevitable, there are very bothersome glitches with a layer turning into a white square for a frame and it is almost never fixed. I hope to learn how to use blender to continue animating but with proper 2D rigs, and watch your videos while i'm animating! I plan on using ToonBoom Harmony to animate soon because one of my favorite animators use it and his animations have a reputation of being very goofy and weird but it's all satire and no one can doubt how continuous and smooth yet bouncy and fun his animations are. I hope you can make a tutorial on how to set up your rig and animate it on a software like Blender! Love ya man and also I love how Doodley looks like this cloud emoji ☁️

[@LeoZhao01]

Thank you for the lesson Professor Doodley

[@cloudshifter]

Alternatively you can animate the hands on a different animation layer if you want different versions of what the hands should do or if you want to offset them with the legs if there is other animation involved that interupts the cycle into another animation.

[@ItsImagineThis]

Heyo so far this video has been super helpful!!!! I’m at the part where I get to animate the arms right now, but the legs are going smoothly (despite IK and foot roll creation issues =-=), and I hope that maybe when I finish I can personalize it and upload it to KZbin (as long as the model allows me to, it should since I created it in Vroid Studio- but I’ll check)! I just want you to know this will be the first time I’ve ever made an animation before, at least the first real time. I’m absolutely loving it, and I’d love to see more animation tutorials from you!!!!

[@charlieclarke4228]

Why is his voice so damn smoothing omgfggsushsjshshjq

[@GrimmTheEngineer]

Thank heavens I found this channel. Now I can learn better animation. Thanks Doodley

[@MationsDam]

This is video doesn't have as much touches as you other videos, but it doesn't matter because it was still useful regardless, i animate on the studio version of roblox (the program that lets you create roblox games). Their in-built animation plugin is very basic, you have a limited amount of interpolation/tweening keys, but it gets the job done if you know what you are doing, recently they even added a graph editor that am yet to figure out 😅. I use a more well known plugin and is the standard when making animations, its called moon animator. Compared the roblox's inbuilt animation plugin, this has alot of features, mainly more tweens like sine and quad, an actual camera and you're even able to animate objects without the need of a rig. (edit: Forgot to add, for some reason blender doesn't allow my computer to run it because appearently i dont have the sufficient drivers to do so, i dont know how to fix this, i tried updating it my driver but that didn't work, so i just gave up, hopefully I can get it solved) Maya makes that look like the roblox in-built animation plugin, so many things i wish i can use as an animator that helps with quality of life. An issue i had animating was my idles unaturally looping, or not being able to make the torso movements more natural and having to "fight the computer" as they call it. I never thought for the unatural looping it was that the last key should delayed by 1 or a few for the most part, thanks for this tip i can not express how much this is going to help me. Hope you're doing well and god bless 🙏

[@ezequiel6575]

amayzing recap its super usefull for a begginer animator such as me, next time you do one of this it would be AWESOME if you put something that registers and shows your imputs, so we can see any cool shortcuts you do

[@SammiesJammies]

Blud traveled 0 zeptometers ☠

[@gianlu4357]

kinda motivated me to pick up 2d animation again. thanks!

[@slimslimonstar8454]

I'll be honest I'm probably not going to animated anything ever but I like learning so I'm here.

[@jirachi7346]

Teacher Mustache teaching how to walk.

[@chanshengsupremacy8889]

Teacher 83

[@TeenyVGC]

You look like the guy from Big Brain Academy

[@mahaneee]

Thank you man You deserve more attention

[@sumkipplays]

I was just looking for this yesterday you are a life saver 👹

[@temporalHistronic]

doodely after dying for a month to come back with a banger video like always

[@Benjaminbadakhshon_support]

I think you're making insanely high quality content🥇

[@KaspYAR]

Ive been really interested in animation for years and I've fiund it really fun doing it casually on and off for a lot of my life (mostly Stop-Motion, clay-mation, flipbooks, and 2d hand drawn), but I've never been able to figure out modeling characters, I could never properly follow tutorials for whatever reason, I think that it has something to do with the 'sterile' and uninviting-ness you mentioned in one of your videos (sorry I can't remember which) and thinking back on it I believe that the sterileness of it subconsciously made it harder to follow? So uh. In future would you be willing to do a video on 3D character modelling, and how to rig it? (Or if this is more of a stream thing would you be happy to stream the process of it?) Sorry if any off this came off in a negative way, Thank you for reading my comment!♡

[@LandonAnimatesYT]

"Babe wake up, new Doodley post"

[@8bitbunnie936]

always love when you upload!

[@bagel_071]

We all know when this man uploads it's gonna be a good day

[@Radspidey]

My favorite KZbinr has uploaded a spectacular tutorial again YES!!!!!!

[@Lovely_flowers_]

You have a very relaxing voice

[@acrosyy420]

Wait, new video in less than a year? WHAT?

[@BloxxerGD]

Anyone else love when Doodley uploads?

[@Bblackout1]

Keepnup the good work.

[@AnimatorHeadSpace]

Really cool walk cycle tutorial man!

[@piranhaP23]

NEW DOODLEY VIDEO RAHHHHH

[@multigenerator5256]

LETS GO A DOODLEY UPLOAD!

[@witherr]

i dont do 3d but i always love watching your vids doodley :-D

[@elmongolxd8081]

Ha ha I just stretched my leg so they can walk, this video did help me

[@JeronimoStilton14]

I wonder if a convolutional network could be trained by being given "known good" animations of various types, and then fed the graph editor data.

[@No-fw4qj]

You should make gimberly do the SpongeBob walk cycle

[@jadenknott]

What about krab's walk cycle lol

[@locochavo4560]

Good stuff! Would like to see more!

[@iosefgg3118]

Nice

[@BreadLoafSFM]

0:32 Where is SFM? :( (Great Video BTW i was helpfull!)

[@robertmichel8456]

SFM is different,

[@immovial]

you are a life saver

[@Tekkenandgaming]

Man thank you so much!

[@blutooth-fe4nt]

I don't even animate, but these are so interesting

[@Adwalo]

It would be awesome if you could show a tutorial as well of a continuation on how to keep the feet planeted when moving in a walk cycle, maybe a part 2??

[@AreYouSiriousRightNowBruh]

"Blud where is she going💀"

[@markprincemarsonia6878]

I love your videos

[@RomasNoreika]

Doodley I am learning rigging and animating in Autodesk 3Ds Max. Is it a bad idea you think? Not using biped or CAT. I am just using Bones with IK controls etc. Seem to do the job just fine. But maybe you would have some advice?

[@cesardanielgallegosflore6322]

I was watching your stream then BOOM a vídeo of that jajaja

[@advladart]

Doodly? more like godly

[@Justin-wj5fw]

for a sec i thought bro animated 45 minutes lmao

[@DemiVilla-rr4ts]

I dont do animation,i just watch ur vids for fun

[@smite_ro7166]

7:43

[@fusion1203]

Wouldn’t it be better if in your example frame 30 was differant then frame 1 because if it was the same then you would have 2 frames of the same image

[@MagicAnimationsReal]

YOO FINALLY

[@jug_inspector]

EVERYONE SHUT UP NEW DOODLEY VIDEO DROPPED

[@dawnkryxel]

Dr gimberly phonk walk.

[@akira-neeski]

Ur alive!

[@adrianmerasanz2625]

Doodley u have her as an animation example could u do smth equal but fighting would help a lot of ppl Who animates and dont know how to do

[@VAN1UM]

I somehow understood this even tho I don't even animate...

[@piotrfiurst9527]

When you started the video from live (1:16) i thought you were animating Micheal Jackson moves

[@JULIUSCOOLX]

I did a run cycle and I think I did good

[@Taylor_Mitchell]

It me! 🤗9:38

[@tala.172]

I don’t even animate and as soon as I saw this video I clicked

[@jujuman2148]

nice

[@mikejox]

im really interested in animation and I really want to improve my skills and your videos are great inspiration

[@jacehunter25]

YESS

[@beluchar1492]

Yes! another tutorial to make better animations