ALAN BECKER - Animating Walk Cycles

[@silysister4815]

Wow this is so easy :D *Now lets to watch it 20 more times-*

[@YosefReborn]

Good for you because it’s good to analyze the video and take your time with practicing :D

[@Awesomeaubrey1987]

Exactly 🤣

[@GetLohst]

Ye let's watch it together and never know how to do it :D

[@grilltex]

Wow thisnis soo true ngl

[@channlonofficial]

TWENTY? 😲

[@mrhappy192]

Visual, detailed and on point. That's what I call a great tutorial!

[@oncreativemode5486]

11/10

[@thingingallovertheplace]

innocence 14/10 bcus 14 is best number

[@Idk-pn2zn]

You comment is 5 years old,now that’s pretty legendary if you ask me

[@llphabet-105]

pose to pose tutorial

[@leonaso3637]

I use my call for make this animations in the app flipaclip

[@aKiBlu]

Dude...seriously...you're recent tutorials are on an entirely different level! I've referenced your work before, and it's always been helpful; but these last 13 have been amazing! I appreciate all the hard work and effort you're putting into these. I'm learning so much and can't wait for your next videos!

[@AlanBeckerTutorials]

aKiBlu Thanks I appreciate it! I definitely feel like my older tutorials could be so much better if I just made them a little more snappy and concise. I plan to redo many of them.

[@aKiBlu]

Awesome! I'm looking forward to those too now!

[@animasuper1343]

you are RECENT TUTORIALS

[@MilaPronto]

@@animasuper1343 you gay

[@k.ajanta]

@@DefnotKali dummy tumtato said himself tumtato was looking forward to that

[@deebrown1902]

I am not an animator. Never knew such a thing as you have offered here was on youTube. I just happened to discover this tonight. Very good and interesting. Thank you.

[@TheLightsmen]

2:08 I love how he chose to make the character to act all like "fuck this shit I'm out"

[@MastaRavenkroft]

🎵 Fuck this shit I'm out 🎵

[@Abditorzo]

LANGUAGE

[@DaACTUALLYREALReddie]

@@Abditorzo STOP BEING SO SENSITIVE 5 YEAR OLD

[@vihtas]

💀​@@Abditorzo

[@squeakerchild7539]

*Says that I don't have to memorize a bunch of stuff* *gives me a bunch of stuff to memorize*

[@Cookieolicity]

😂 Well we are learning stuff in all, what did you expect :P

[@squeakerchild7539]

Just a joke. Stupid KZbin won't let me reply directly to replied on comments. MEMORIZE THAT, KZbin

[@saw9413]

Aha :P

[@alanaflynn8878]

More like "you don't have to memorize THIS much stuff. You can memorize a bit less stuff." :)

[@bongwaterfumes]

Just write it down

[@jjkmovies]

I've found that a looping walk cycle won't look slidey if you time the tween right. It can take some adjusting to get it right, but I do it all the time. Love this tutorial, by the way.

[@AlanBeckerTutorials]

Yes, true, you can tweak the speed and distance to reduce the slide, but there are two other factors: the distance the foot travels in each frame has to be perfectly even, and often that is hard to predict. Also if you animate the cycle on twos and the tween is on ones, it will always appear to be sliding. But yeah if it's on ones and perfectly spaced then it works.

[@Waken0]

man this comment is old idk why i even wrote it

[@carmenflores7867]

wut

[@jlmoose3511]

Who are you

[@alialyafei6879]

thank you helped me

[@MattTheWab]

I don't know why this is so difficult for me!

[@Lesjeremyadesdulascar]

Dude i'm thinking exactly the same ^^, but yea animating truy is something you need to practice again and again

[@janelle9998]

Les jeremyades du lascar Lol its easy once you try simple animating then go on to hard animating to get better. I'm already halfway good at it.

[@Lesjeremyadesdulascar]

Halfway good ?! i would love to see that :D. Did you upload stuff on the internet ?

[@Lesjeremyadesdulascar]

I just released my first animation :D, if i could have your opinion on it it would be awesome :)

[@princessseny5115]

I agree, if you check on my newest vid on my KZbin channel, the walking has gone terribly wrong.

[@AudioMixedVideoAMV]

Alan Walker = Music Producer Alan Becker = Animator Who is next ???

[@woodsycandiedatoll4599]

not me how 'bout Alan Bean?

[@sqthernplays628]

Alan Stalker Why am I saying this when I love both Mr Walker And Mr Becker

[@FennxFoolery]

Alan Alan = Alan

[@tainamarte1400]

Audio Mixed Video [AMV] Alan wecker fanof alan becker and walker

[@cubejsb6684]

Alan Chek = Lyrcs Writer

[@roboticcrabanimates]

“So let’s talk about walk cycles” *shows walking carrot* wait-

[@shijukumar007]

ok

[@ilolbit2393]

WALKING CARROT I LOVE VIGGYS

[@karimnagati7581]

YOU ARE SOOOOOOOOO GOOD AT ANIMATING, I WANNA BE LIKE YOU WHEN I'M OLDER

[@antoniosequeira7944]

ComradeStalin me too

[@HiddenTheAnimator]

Well, your older. Are you?

[@YosefReborn]

It’s good to practice instead of praising someone for being good

[@utfkygkuyh4386]

@@YosefReborn no homo but ily bro its rare to see this kind of comment on yt

[@YosefReborn]

FREED O0 huh?

[@henniedevilliers7570]

This is a good tutorial without uhms and ahms , no sordid background sounds clear voice...very well done; the walking carrot is quaint. Thank you very much.

[@LakituStar]

you are really fucking good at teaching this shit

[@AlanBeckerTutorials]

Thanks! lol

[@totalanimalactionofive9980]

+xxxFNAFfan222xxx He uses flash

[@theunknown9968]

+totalanimalaction ofive i have flash, but i cant really open flash help?

[@totalanimalactionofive9980]

The Unknown www.adobe.com/ca/products/flash.html Are you trying to open flash player? make sure you have adobe flash professional cc or cs

[@theunknown9968]

Pixelator Power CS6

[@johnjanetka5164]

Great mini-lesson. I show this to my high school animation students each year!

[@wendix]

this tutorial is never gets old!

[@fruitytea7259]

A checkmark with only 3 likes?? Huh??

[@wendix]

@@fruitytea7259 huhh

[@Black_Ghost69]

@@fruitytea7259 cz he used sub bot increase his subs tho

[@Black_Ghost69]

@@wendix you sub boter XD

[@wendix]

@@Black_Ghost69 you slander me 😂👍🏻

[@tomislavartz]

Probably the best Walkcycle video i've seen so far. great job!

[@logan-berry6819]

"Sad and depressed walk" aka how I walk every day

[@lutenantbladey9062]

hello five minutes ago

[@nohumansjustcubeheads6536]

Marrow same

[@SolarSimonDM]

hello 8 months ago

[@matthewstone2545]

hello 3 weeks ago

[@gbmuffinstheew4987]

Hello 10 months ago

[@baileycohen7775]

Thank you! I am a beginner cartoonist and this will really help make my characters look like they're actually walking instead of awkwardly lunging across town XD

[@Grimmijaggers]

Thank you so much for this! It really helped me out on an animation I'm trying to do. Your explanation was clear, easy to understand and the examples you gave visually really put across what you were explaining! Thanks again!

[@robertshirley493]

This tutorial is one of the best. Alan speaks well and gets to the point. He manages to provide a great amount of accurate information in 4 minutes of air time.

[@josh11735]

I guess I wasn't _completely_ off when I tried making a walk cycle... xD Great tutorial Alan! :D

[@DPC2011]

I literally forgot that this was Alan Becker for almost the entire video

[@beary5708]

This was the video that my school used-

[@digitalcartoonsfm]

This is the best video that explains walk cycles and it's under 4 minutes, wow thank you very much :) - Digital Cartoons

[@pachaimoua9749]

Love and appreciate the fact that you explain so SO well of why contact pose is called a contact pose and passing pose as a passing pose. My professors just straight up say now let’s do contact passing up down etc poses without explaining what they mean or what they are. It’s not very motivating not knowing what they mean. Not knowing the real meaning makes me feel rushed. Like either just go with the flow and do it without completely understand the concepts of why we need those poses or fail. Great explanation. Such a life savor.

[@LewdicideMouse]

I believe this is the most informal in Alan's series. It helped me a lot! Thanks Alan, and keep doing what you're doing!

[@geo6398]

awesome tutorial. feel so much more comfortable with them already after watching and trying it myself.

[@clawkittukitty3109]

I always sort my walk cycles into groups. (i may be a ten year old child learning from stuff on the internet but my animations are just above terrible.) It goes: Right straight, Left at an angle, Right at an angle, Left straight. Easy as that.

[@whosjj_]

Reza Koplak406 pfft lol

[@froggernadessecret]

@Reza Koplak406 im 13 and i can animate a bouncing slime and a walkign kirby

[@Creations-uy3eg]

Dang all of this is better than what I create...

[@systemofaparx]

Bro at least yall have skills :,)

[@Creations-uy3eg]

•blu bean• ARE YOU JOKING? I literally just looked through your whole Channel ITS BEAUTIFUL!

[@kidfromforeign8063]

Thank you man. I just did a walk cycle and it’s was better using your method and tips

[@Secondjrcooperto18]

You deserve an award for being the best at explaining a walking tutorial

[@raidev_]

"it will feel like a videogame character" me who wants to animate a videogame character:

[@Kauan-jl8hj]

Stonks

[@LunaAclipse]

Stonks

[@daxterapid]

"It can sometimes look mechanical and slidey, like a video game character." As I'm using this for a video game character.

[@elijahanimates5455]

2:35 i was looking for sad depressed walk thanks

[@elijahanimates5455]

and lemme tell u a secret in 8 and I use blender 2.8 and me dad is buying one of those art tablets that u can plug into your pc and animate for Christmas and I cant WAIIITTT!!!

[@7313micropigz]

This is crazy helpful!!!!! Thank you for posting this!

[@GamersOrb]

I didnt knew this was that easy, you cant imagine how much i tried before watching this video You are a true savior.

[@AncientArchive]

Concise, informative, and technical with more than adequate visual aid. Very helpful, 5/5

[@LunaAclipse]

42.0/42.0

[@scifiguysminecraft]

Oh wow!! Just Wow!!! You're tutorials are amazing!! I love them so much!! I love the 12 principles of animation and now this video is so thorough, and detailed in the ways of adding some more depth and personality to a character's walk cycles. I'll be rewatching this video a few times for sure! ;) Thanks for making another amazing tutorial! :D

[@bozo9309]

I’m a beginner so may I ask at 1:27, how do you do that. Also in everyday animation how is it possible to create a bigger scene but then move the camera around

[@LolzolOG2]

i paused the video at 0:23 so i could look at all the frames of a walk cycle. very good video🤗

[@sashimiandnoodle9539]

Thank you for sharing this free for us! My daughter, 9 yo, loves making animation in Flipaclip from my phone using her fingers. And I was quite astonished by her work. She just needs guidance on how to make it properly. I will use videos in your channel as references. THANK YOU!

[@quakercrackers4262]

My goal is to make a 60 FPS 1 minute Stickman fight.

[@7781kathy]

60 FPS? Good luck.

[@quakercrackers4262]

Sans the Moral Compass Thanks man, that means 3600 Frames for a 1 minute animation.

[@quakercrackers4262]

Sans the Moral Compass It is definetly gonna take a while, and yes, special effects will be in.

[@quakercrackers4262]

The1upanimator Thanks, I hope it will be done by Chirstmas!

[@lukecommando3964]

dayum where are you gon a publish it?

[@sureklidizi8664]

When I grow up, I want to be an animator like you.

[@ImCookieTho]

1:00 use this as reference for your animations!

[@maxdukhovskoy1406]

This is one of the best animation tutorials! You got to the point without any excess info but not excluding important info.

[@toniescarrafufu7721]

Thank you for the tutorial, my mother bought me an iPad to draw and animate. But after some time i stoped using it because i didn’t no how and what to do, but i think I’m getting back on track. I hope that it keeps like this!

[@noireanimations]

Meanwhile my shitty-ass free software lagging so bad that I don't even know if I animated it correctly

[@jazzie2291]

THE GOD OF ANIMATION AS YOUR MENTOR *remembers that I'm broke*

[@andybroberg7946]

2:08 so cool

[@chez-it-eater]

im starting a animation channel and this legit changes everything

[@0zzysaurus]

2:16 for people who want to see forward view!

[@KonamiCat]

0:23 Bruh all i had to do was pause that and just draw them legs and reapet it THATS ALL I FRIGGEN NEEDED XD

[@kavitachawalia2131]

Me getting this video on recommendation after 6 years

[@listed7568]

This was SO helpful. Thanks! :D

[@matheusmariani3108]

"That's it? This is the lost episode? It's just a bunch of cheap walk cycles!"

[@spare7214]

so dang helpful! :)

[@Illuminateus]

i barely downloaded toon boom the other night, bought my first digital graphic tablet, and all i made was a ball bouncing across the cress for 3 seconds...like...watching this is intimidating to me. hopefully ill be bale to learn something..

[@RobertSpeaksSho]

ToonBoom is good imo but tutorials are hard to find

[@Illuminateus]

thanks for the confidence, its going to take a while before i can really do anyhting but ill get there

[@Mist5095]

Try using Pivot Stick figure Animator first. You could practice animating without having to draw.

[@janelle9998]

Reply to this comment if you wanna make animations of stick figures just like Alan

[@janelle9998]

Yes

[@top3myths848]

reply

[@KB-jr9bd]

To this comment

[@saberhagen9423]

more than just stickfigures :P

[@Manmanbatman]

Janelle Hilliard to this comment

[@Starting282]

Idk why but alan becker tutorial is good at teaching I'm watch first time and did it first try

[@corylee4054]

thanks, as a 3d animator i can animate many things but a walk cycle oddly enough, is the hardest thing for me. This actually gave me a few tips i didn't know yet, and thanks for that!

[@cleavant5078]

If your those type of people who still can't make any of the video out, just copy me. observe and copy the carrot walking in the beginning at speed 0.25

[@zexoxo591]

+Cleaver Thanks for the great idea, I used that method and it has worked very well thanks.

[@cleavant5078]

screw the tutorial :D

[@zexoxo591]

Cleaver i like the tutorial because it has informed me, i like this method as it has helped me. :^)

[@joutakujo5621]

+Cleaver i fucking love you dude. it helps me a lot

[@cleavant5078]

GetinThe GoddamnRobot Your welcome :)

[@mushroomgamez7830]

Oh my god why is this so hard to make ;-;

[@あはたはまらやおさゆあらまやは]

best animator

[@joshthesquishy7142]

Nicat Hüseynli I suck at animating. ;( my animations don’t look good at all

[@nox6687]

It didn't even register that this video was 7 years old until he started explaining what Patreon was

[@tempoz9498]

Thanks man for this explanation, I love it ❤❤

[@TuxeDex]

I saw this ad from this vid. It says Girl: hmm Boy:brrr Man:Grrr Man#2: HAMBURGER! Get it. Because they're cold

[@eli_VAL06]

TuxeDex its from Jolibee from the Phillipines im from der 2

[@whosjj_]

I didn’t get it until the second time I read it

[@sashii2860]

2:08 Me walking home from school

[@esu7116]

Alan Walker 😂😭

[@lukehornbach9316]

I personally like to convert the walking cyle to an object and so it doesnt look slidey i make a quick function how long the character walks per second.

[@amokaanimationz240]

0:03 BFDI be like:

[@Ravioliyt]

I like the guy with the funny arms It reminds me of my life .. unpredictable

[@achild5864]

hhhhhhh i was using this video to make a walk cycle for a music video I was working on, and I was adding like details and clothes and stuff and the program crASHES i lost all my work

[@juliab2328]

Thanks so much! You helped me to draw my first walk cycle :)

[@karoleus1208]

Worked great, thanks!

[@Ohminen]

2:09 makes me laugh everytime. I know some people who do that.

[@Newyork-i1j]

Who’s here on 2025

[@afinley1120]

This look simple

[@wat245]

Don't let it fool you

[@Slash657]

because of you, I have created my first ever walking stickman animation! 🎉

[@skol1004]

ty im going to make animations soon so this reaaally helped

[@kerimkanatl3718]

ı am from turkey . ı am you whatcing My no inglish :D .you lol

[@Kenobiobijuan]

+Kerim Kanatlı me to, me to

[@MrComedy99k]

Who was just watch this video in 2025😅

[@tamiausten873]

Me boo❤

[@qavvas6859]

Me

[@idkstickmananimation]

Me. Had to find his software 💀

[@ramywaqed6979]

Me

[@NoimHu]

uh, hello

[@notanythinganymore]

he has a big butt at 0:15

[@Ehkoshmehko]

Tommilluminati No one gives a shit

[@notanythinganymore]

ur mom gives a shit

[@cheekybreeky3775]

Only 10 year olds use that joke

[@blackstar044]

T h i c c

[@joshthesquishy7142]

It might be a man so u might be gay

[@chaitanyauppuluri6181]

I struggled a lot to draw these cycles. But watching your video made them a piece of cake for me

[@King-sd5vg]

i know this is old but you being my animator mentor in my opinion your close if not disney level animator :)

[@WolfyzP0W]

This made me realize how much depth and work is required, omfg.

[@hyphen6025]

By watching your tutorials i can make my first full lenght flash animation where a stick figure runs and falls. Thank you Alan.

[@badbad6163]

i couldn't suppress myself from liking your videos :) thanks a lot

[@poofer3878]

Omg this video saved me for one of my classes THANK YOU

[@AgencyDrone]

So I am a 13 year old boy just testing stuff out, but useless information aside, this was a very helpful tutorial! Thank you!

[@urxnus6058]

Thanks,alan! This really help me in my animation!

[@oringoanimates1418]

This was very helpful, thank you!

[@deadbones1009]

You helped me animate better thank you so much

[@kamleon1975]

i dont have the patience for this... bless all animators

[@NotiPOV]

I'm working on an animation this helped thank you. You're the best mentor yet, in my opinion, your way better than draw with Jazza, I wish my channel wasn't so small so I can show everyone what I can do

[@Inventor_VA]

Thanks Alan!

[@nonemoartist3235]

Omg words CANNOT describe how useful this is!!! THANK YOU!!!

[@Gibberish_Introvert713]

I actually was kinda expecting the plant walking animation from AvA that TSC helped Alan with Edit: I just realized why, the animatic would be too difficult and it's also a 3/4ths view point.

[@pettinaroliaprendiendoadib2042]

Thank you so much... A powerful lesson...

[@lowlyfirefly]

I am not even an animator, but this was so fun and helpful! Thank you for putting this together!

[@maryrose9524]

Simple yet Very informative for newbies. Thanks for this💓

[@JedAnimationStudios]

Thank you for making this video, im working on developing my animation techniques and this has proven really helpful on what i need to do next 😊🖒