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 🤣

[@vinesandvisions]

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

[@grilltex]

Wow thisnis soo true ngl

[@channlonofficial]

TWENTY? 😲

[@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.

[@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

[@Tsang143]

pose to pose tutorial

[@leonaso3637]

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

[@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 🎵

[@Abditoro]

LANGUAGE

[@DaACTUALLYREALReddie]

@@Abditoro STOP BEING SO SENSITIVE 5 YEAR OLD

[@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

[@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

[@fennecchelywolf6820]

Alan Alan = Alan

[@tainamarte1400]

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

[@cubejsb6684]

Alan Chek = Lyrcs Writer

[@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

[@LolzolOG2]

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

[@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

[@roboticcrabanimates]

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

[@shijukumar007]

ok

[@ilolbit2393]

WALKING CARROT I LOVE VIGGYS

[@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.

[@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.

[@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?

[@johnjanetka5164]

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

[@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

[@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 😂👍🏻

[@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!

[@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

[@geo6398]

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

[@tomislavartz]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@GamersOrb]

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

[@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!!!

[@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.

[@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!

[@digitalcartoonsfm]

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

[@AncientArchive]

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

[@LunaAclipse]

42.0/42.0

[@DPC2011]

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

[@kidfromforeign8063]

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

[@josh11735]

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

[@Secondjrcooperto18]

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

[@ImCookieTho]

1:00 use this as reference for your animations!

[@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!

[@daxterapid]

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

[@andybroberg7946]

2:08 so cool

[@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!

[@raidev_]

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

[@Kauan-jl8hj]

Stonks

[@LunaAclipse]

Stonks

[@listed7568]

This was SO helpful. Thanks! :D

[@0zzysaurus]

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

[@karoleus1208]

Worked great, thanks!

[@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

[@matheusmariani3108]

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

[@beary5708]

This was the video that my school used-

[@tempoz9498]

Thanks man for this explanation, I love it ❤❤

[@sureklidizi8664]

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

[@chez-it-eater]

im starting a animation channel and this legit changes everything

[@noireanimations]

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

[@bakuhoeeee5497]

Wow ..... I was stuck with this walk until i saw this video......thanks for making this video!!

[@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

[@pettinaroliaprendiendoadib2042]

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

[@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

[@ghostroads81]

this was super useful and easy to understand, thank you so much

[@spare7214]

so dang helpful! :)

[@Starting282]

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

[@kavitachawalia2131]

Me getting this video on recommendation after 6 years

[@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!

[@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?

[@Inventor_VA]

Thanks Alan!

[@jazzie2291]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@themistysnowfield5095]

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

[@urxnus6058]

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

[@mushroomgamez7830]

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

[@oringoanimates1418]

This was very helpful, thank you!

[@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

[@skol1004]

ty im going to make animations soon so this reaaally helped

[@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

[@SrFreakus]

Janelle Hilliard to this comment

[@maxdukhovskoy1406]

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

[@esu7116]

Alan Walker 😂😭

[@AlexisCruzzz]

Starting my first flipbook animation today and this is really helping me out! Thank you for a great video!

[@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

[@LilInkStudio]

Thanks man, this tutorial helped, now I can continue my animation!

[@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 :)

[@princessseny5115]

This helped me, now I can try and make animation videos of walking stuff

[@amokaanimationz240]

0:03 BFDI be like:

[@rocketman2379]

I know this is late, like very late, but i have been having trouble with walking animations for a long time, and i thank you for this video

[@Ravioliyt]

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

[@chaitanyauppuluri6181]

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

[@sashii2860]

2:08 Me walking home from school

[@avidairial2579]

Great tutorial. Your very precise and what you say correlates to what is being shown on the screen.

[@afinley1120]

This look simple

[@wat245]

Don't let it fool you

[@monkeychief1904]

I've learned so much in one day by watching your videos

[@Ohminen]

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

[@juliab2328]

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

[@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

[@poofer3878]

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

[@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

[@deadbones1009]

You helped me animate better thank you so much

[@MrComedy99k]

Who was just watch this video in 2024😅

[@tamiausten873]

Me boo❤

[@qavvas6859]

Me

[@idkstickmananimation]

Me. Had to find his software 💀

[@ramywaqed6979]

Me

[@NoimHu]

uh, hello

[@kamleon1975]

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

[@kerimkanatl3718]

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

[@Kenobiobijuan]

+Kerim Kanatlı me to, me to

[@synthesizer6501]

thank you for the video i love how simple it is and it works

[@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.

[@zygistodos]

Omg already the beginning helped me a lot,Thanks!

[@JJWarriorBlade]

Man, This saved me a lot of time with animating! Thank you!

[@nonemoartist3235]

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

[@RonWylie-gk5lc]

Great explination, a boost to any new animator

[@10fingers61]

It's easy to forget, but walking is a balancing act that, ironically, has many steps. It's difficult to understand because each leg is doing something different at the same time: 1) In order to start moving, you use Foot 1 to push yourself up and forward off the ground. You stick Foot 2 out in front of you and land on it. 2) Keeping your leg stiff, you pivot on Foot 2 as if it's a pole. You lift Foot 1 into the air by bending your knee (this prevents your foot from dragging on the ground when it swings by Foot 2). 3) Once you pivot far enough on Foot 2, you begin falling forward. At this time, you straighten Foot 1's leg and land on it. Both legs are straight now, in an upside-down V shape. 4) You use Foot 2 to push off the ground again (this keeps you moving forward). 5) Now you use Foot 1 as a pole, and swing Foot 2 through the air by bending your knee. 6) You fall forward, straighten your leg, catch yourself on Foot 2, and push off the ground with Foot 1. Repeat this cycle, and that's walking! It's still very difficult to get down, and there are many smaller details I haven't covered, but this is the gist of it. Good luck and good work with your animations!

[@LunaAclipse]

*wow*