How to Animate a Basic Walk Cycle 🚶

[@Phroggster]

When you talked about starting a second channel where you'd focus more on the "how to do it yourself" instead of the post-hoc analysis of "what had already been done," I wasn't sure that it'd really be content for me. Having watched this, I'm glad that I subscribed here. You've got such a calming demeanor, are very clearly both knowledgeable and skilled in what you do, and have an excellent ability to communicate and share that knowledge with others. Bravo!

[@DanRootAnimTute]

Thanks so much, it's good to hear feedback like this so I can improve and adapt to what works for most people!

[@ObaREX]

The art of animation is so underappreciated

[@locochavo4560]

This is the most organic walk cycle tutorial I've seen! Wonderful work!

[@DanRootAnimTute]

Thank you!

[@PO1PLE]

As someone who loves animation, experimentation has always been my way to learn, but finally, I've found a good tutorial that doesn't just tell you "draw your key poses, those are the most important and exiting poses, and then do your in-between and clean up", thank you for a wonderful tutorial. (:

[@DanRootAnimTute]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Glad to help!

[@toadboydude5015]

I love these videos, they're nice and slow-paced but not boring. Thank you Dan.

[@DanRootAnimTute]

Thank you, you're totally welcome!

[@Leblancandrew]

This is a wonderful video. Delving into animation currently and you couldn't have uploaded at a better time. Forever grateful!

[@DanRootAnimTute]

Hey thanks, glad it's helped!

[@Zenlore6499]

This was really calming. You’re such a good teacher!

[@DanRootAnimTute]

Thanks so much!

[@ElTaitronAnim]

Very simple and straightforward, well done :) Personally I would start with the contact and passing positions before doing the up and downs, but that's just another option.

[@DanRootAnimTute]

Thanks, and yeah everyone has slightly different ways of setting it up, it's just whatever works.

[@Donotaro22]

Saved this to my art tutorial playlist, thanks Dan. Love your videos!

[@DanRootAnimTute]

Thank you!

[@TheChair399]

Interesting as always my dude, very glad you decided to do this

[@thedishonorablewizardthorn2486]

Thank you!! I was really hoping you would do a walk cycle early on and this was better than I could have asked for, thanks!

[@downspiral]

Thank you for the tutorial! This was a great help for me starting out in 2D Animation!

[@sawyerscoding900]

I used this video to make my first walk cycle and don't have twitter to say thanks so I came here. It helped a ton! Thank you!

[@DanRootAnimTute]

You're totally welcome!

[@navodyarperera]

Thank you so much Sir! I'm an undergraduate of Creative Multimedia and we have animation studies as one of our modules. You're a real life saver! ❤❤❤

[@j3nn1f3r_ch4v3z]

This video is great. It is a very organic walking cycle and will be useful for my project! Thx

[@AKAIAMusic]

big thanks for sharing it Needed to break down the walking steps for my new intro and now it works ;)

[@yurei6028]

This was amazing and really good help for my portfolio 😁 could you also by chance do one where something heavy is being thrown?

[@Cerberus-Viper]

Thank you so much this helped me with i a project im working on and i really couldnt get this walk cycle down, but with this video it explained all the stages well .

[@okjeffy6581]

Thanks. Very helpful. I’m gonna be animating my Characters soon.

[@rishvanthnandagopal8484]

Dude, your tutorial videos are epic. When is the new video going to come out? PS: I watched all of your videos by the way.

[@SmileyChaotiX]

Thank you for posting this!! It helps a lot!!

[@tyrannt3402]

Thank you so much Dan! I'm currently working on a game rn (for personal project) and I really needed a walk and run cycle, Thank you for making a good tutorial for walk! Really helpful 😸

[@DanRootAnimTute]

I'll be sure to do a run cycle soon! Good luck with your game!

[@DatBiBish]

Amazing! Thank you ❤

[@jamesscourtos3583]

More of these please!

[@arjay7780]

Thanks Dan. Great video.

[@B-doodles]

OMG THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH TYSM!!!

[@OneOfThemSprinkles]

Thank you, this was very helpful.

[@reenchanted]

This is great! Any chance you’d be able to do one like this but with an old-school 3-frame cycle a la Megaman?

[@DoviSàn]

this may be old but it helped a lot thank you

[@CodyBarnette-GNARK]

its 2 years. i dont think walking is going to change in 2 years 🤦‍♂

[@danielmaki5250]

Thank u 😢 so much I’m trash at that u made it best

[@jammydinos5479]

Thank you :D

[@introvertkz]

how to do it with ready ai file? is there any tutors for making cyclic animation? my teacher showed and i forgot, but i cant find or search normally on youtube!

[@sujalsawardekar6331]

love it!!!!!!!! ihave only question that why my edges are breaking in adobe animate while drawing please answer it!!

[@powerbolt7508]

Hey can you tell me some tricks for animating with your finger? I have been drawing on an ancient galaxy J5 with my finger for over 1 and a half year and it's still so hard because my phone doesn't support stylus so please give tricks

[@DanRootAnimTute]

Oh boy, umm. That's a tricky one. All I can suggest is trying to invest or save up for hardware which supports styluses, I think it'll be tricky to get the right accuracy using finger drawing.

[@powerbolt7508]

It's even harder thank you think because I have crippling OCD

[@TIH-2024]

Thanks Edit: this animation that I'm making looks great now, it is tried cats

[@GalabuziX]

Thank you!!

[@velocitygaming7037]

is there a way to copy it at pencil2d?

[@pooruanimations]

After making the 4 steps of the walk cycle should i add the inbetweens?

[@DanRootAnimTute]

Yeah do it!

[@zainii2086]

can you attach a source file with it ?

[@Isadragon480]

what program do you use

[@DanRootAnimTute]

Adobe Animate

[@Isadragon480]

@@DanRootAnimTute thank you so much

[@AP-jx3fm]

Is XP PEN compatible with Adobe animate??

[@dnevnik_prokrastinatora]

Sure it is

[@Thewrekman]

Can you use blender?

[@DanRootAnimTute]

You can use Blender for this exercise, yes 💪

[@agustinriverus]

Does it work in orher animating programs?

[@DanRootAnimTute]

It should do

[@xDevLarsh]

can i have a template of this?

[@DanRootAnimTute]

I'm afraid I didn't make one - sorry!

[@victoriajohn7079]

The onion skin is not working for me

[@qassim1233]

this isnt dan bull