how to animate a walk cycle (100% polish)

[@acamporota]

00:26 Leg 10:52 Hip 15:18 Spine 19:16 Arms 30:05 Head

[@sainaveen2307]

Wat is this sir

[@niloydey1960]

nice thing. looks like a more accurate..

[@Fictionart977]

Hi Sir can you make tutorial on forward walk. If possible then character moves forward, stops and does something. It would be great to see how expertise do. Finally thank you so much for great videos.

[@fredm.1761]

Please do a tutorial on rigging like this character, it seems to be so confortable to use... Nice work and thanks for sharing...

[@xox8717]

could you do a basic one about the 12 principles especially follow through,drag and overlap and how to apply them for Characters thanks :)

[@SiergiejW]

Well I am polish and I can confirm this was truly a 100%

[@Agyani_21]

😂

[@Nugcon]

thank you for verifying!

[@matt051992]

This comment is trully underrated.

[@3DPDK]

An interesting (and important) tip: Because a woman's pelvis is shaped slightly different than a man's, a woman tends to place her feet under her center of gravity rather than shifting her center of gravity over her feet like a man tends to do. If a man and woman walk through the snow, generally speaking, the width of the mans foot prints (side to side) will be almost as wide as his hips, where a woman's foot prints will be nearly in line from one to the next. This technique of female walking is even more pronounced when a woman wears high heels as a result of her taking more effort to maintain balance when shifting her weight to her forward foot. Again; this is due to the gender differences in rotational geometry of the hip joint. It's what gives a man a "swagger" in his walk, and more of a "Swivel Hip" in a woman's walk. Where Mr. Camporota shifts the man's upper body over the feet, to animate a female you should shift the feet inward towards the center line - not all the way, but nearly - THEN make up the difference with a much less emphasized body shift. In an I.K. rigged model this will give the woman's hips a natural "swivel". Just a detail: the "passing" foot in a female walk swings outward just enough to clear the contact foot.

[@alma-pf1tb]

Thanks for the tip Very informative!🙏😁

[@AerysBat]

I spent all day working through your tutorial and ended up with my first walk cycle that I'm actually happy with! Thank you!!

[@acamporota]

Glad to hear that. Keep animating

[@Joygulplay]

I like the fact that he managed to do this in 30 minutes and I've been trying to make this for 3 days and still can't do it as good as him.

[@rayanmagneto]

This is the in-depth Animation walk cycle tutorial you ever need 🔥

[@atomixfang]

Thanks a lot for the tip about the lateral rotation of the hip. I have always had trouble on that!

[@armanicode967]

Most helpful tutorials in KZbin for beginner animator! Thank you very much!

[@webelieveintrump8949]

can u make tutorial on how to understand graph editor for begginers thank you

[@bentraje]

On 11:26 , you mentioned that animators have this mistake of rotating the hips up, rather than downward, when foot is lifted for passing position. The thing is the hips do both in that instance. It rotates upward when it's lifting, then rotates downward when it's about to step down. The catch is it either happens a frame or two. So it's a bit negligible. My basis on this is observing motion capture. If you have a counter observation, I'm all ears. Thanks for the video. Regards, Ben

[@gavindell6682]

Animating pose to pose is a much better way than straight ahead. You should pose both of the stride positions first with the entire body and arms involved. Then grab the root and do the down and up passing pose positions on the root only about 3 frames apart. The arms and chest will inbetween themselves if posed correctly. Then do the feet like this shows. The root comes first and your main walk stride poses with atitude. Then polish the arms and side to side balance and the curves in the graph editor.

[@rosarioamico6002]

This video was a godsend. Thank you for your in depth tutorial!, I will be sure to keep watching.

[@acamporota]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ever6]

This was very helpful I agree with another comment about hip lateral rotation stuff. I always make that mistake starting on walks. Thank you oh can I suggest a video how do you animate shakey hands/arms showing anger or struggling. Like the hulk roaring or powering up without looking poppy/jittery. Basically how to show body mechanics of weight pushing something heavy etc. Hope this makes sense thanks again for banging out great stuff.

[@reginaldarmah2381]

This channel is pure GOLD

[@rohankundu_2613]

Thank you Sir for this Great tutorial...!!!🔥 I spent all day working through your tutorial and ended up my walk cycle

[@acamporota]

@@rohankundu_2613 pleasure to hear that

[@princeraghav5849]

Sir did in 32 min me struggling to animate 5 time a walk cyle better then previous

[@VinodPatel-tn1hf]

Your teaching skill is outstanding 😍🤟

[@kylefemath5875]

I can't Thank you enough for this video Alessandro and great breakdown of everything! I hope to take a private mentorship with you one day sir! Strength and Honor!!

[@VMP666]

That's not Polish, that's English! All seriousness though, I think this is the best tutorial I've seen so far as far as walking cycle is concerned. Great job, immediately fixed my own walk cycle thanks to your tips. Cheers!

[@acamporota]

Happy to hear that, you can find plenty more on my channel

[@arr6931]

I really love your tutorials. TYSM for save me

[@acamporota]

@@arr6931 my pleasure

[@ZouUuu]

Thanks for sharing all of this ! this is top industry quality.

[@cgfarmerstudio]

What I like about your tutorial is that you make everything easy!!! thanks again!!

[@DanUtabara]

Alessandro, at the end did you use infinity cycle on the other body parts like the arms, cog, hips ?

[@abyoussef734]

That was amazing! We can't wait to see more.

[@Juanimation]

Thank you sir for this tutorial, those little details sure helps alot, I'll be repeating this video again and improve my awalk cycle :)

[@acamporota]

Happy to hear that

[@sadhanasharma3537]

Hello Sir!!! Literally, one of the best tutorials I've seen on walk cycle. Can you please make a tutorial on knee pop on the same rig coz I can't able to make a smooth trail as you did in the rig but didn't show. Though you told the process by telling 3 techniques I can't able to make a smooth loop and jerk continue...and I'm totally in a Mess.🙏

[@majupiju2347]

great tutorial! thx for sharing your knowledge ;D looking forward to watch or other videos.

[@This_Guy-]

i look up to be just like you . You are a legend i have no words to describe you excellent animator

[@acamporota]

Ahah thank you

[@momocal9660]

You are doing an amazing job. It has been a big help to me thank you.

[@acamporota]

I am happy to hear that

[@nalhalage2591]

give him a like guys and appreciate his work

[@Seemaless2914]

Sir please make video on run cycle (100% polish)

[@tauseefkhan4225]

Hi

[@acamporota]

there is one now ;)

[@tanujathakur1019]

Actually leaned a lot from this tutorial 🤗😘thnx

[@acamporota]

Welcome

[@alma-pf1tb]

Thank you for this amazing tutorial !!!😍

[@scifiworld6462]

Sir i have question , is it necessary to animate a full walk cycle loop in place , i mean i watched many tutorials online and they animate the same way , what are the problems when animating not in the same place but with also animating root controllers ? , can we translate this animated cycle with root controller make it work for vfx production ?

[@hamedsaffari2280]

very very interesting. but a little qustion?Why you not use yellow hip controller for rotating hips at contact position? is this not easier

[@nimaxo2012]

Dear Alessandro So much thanks for your tutorial videos. Do you have a tutorial about walking and coming to a stop ? Or Stay talking and walk away ?

[@Vicky-v1k9p]

great tutorial and you are giving to us in free thanks for this but i have a problem the character is moving in a same place so i decide to move the main controller in the way of translate z and i did it but it seems like character is walking on a ice would you like to make a tutorial on this or if you may just tell me in comment my english is not good hope you understand

[@abhijeet4799]

I dont really understand how are you getting the idea about what to change and how it should look in the graph editor

[@hy0chan]

really awesome as usual! please make tutorial how and when to smear and when to not (dunno what you call it - something like there are two objects in a fast moving action to create an illusion-) are you using double reference or something? :) thanks!

[@baenlee439]

Hi Alessandro Camporota.After finishing the blocking, I am not sure about the order that if I want to add more steps in this animation? including weight shifting of the character, anticipation, cushioning, arc, and finally add extrusion and stretching. May I know your opinion? thank you so much.

[@Sai557]

Very good content good job thanks!!

[@babekmadatov8361]

Thank you Alessandro. I have a question. How to place the animation of right hand and shoulder to the left?

[@TheBLACKX72]

Sometimes I worry too much about offsetting each finger, is that necessary here, or is that more important in hand close up shots.

[@shubhamrai4850]

really liked the tutorial keep teaching us

[@paolaabril2922]

I am following this with another rig, but even trying to copy the poses, values and curves, I keep getting knee pops, is it just me ? HOw could I fix that? ( have tried everything, move the COG and the legs slightly, the knees too)

[@acamporota]

I have a tutorial on my channel on how to fix poppy knee

[@Life_Design_Ai]

Great tutorial...👏👏

[@pułkownikkaczodziobyzpodlasia]

I was hoping it would be in polish 😂 i watched it anyway 😊

[@sanketwankhede18]

how did you add key in 16 to 25? or you did by your self?

[@ericthompson4655]

Thanks again Alessandro

[@slav335]

23:50 i don't get why did you offset the hand in the first place if you offset it back anyway? and then you just adjust it yourself. i mean if you would offset the hand 1 frame ahead it would be the same as you did manually after offsetting hand back

[@noreasonchannel4012]

hi there! Amazing tutorial! Althought ive always wanting to ask whats the best no.of keyframes we should use...like in this video you've used 24, but is it 60 or 30 or 24 for general game characters anim because games run on 60 fps wouldnt that be an issue if animation done in 24 keyframes?

[@chloeelimam]

I think you could probably just scale it. So in 24 fps the main poses are happening every 3 frames, in 60 fps the main poses are happening every 7.5 frames, because the action is still taking 1 second, there are just more frames squished into a second. C D P U C D P U C 0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 0 7.5 15 22.5 30 37.5 45 52.5 60

[@noreasonchannel4012]

@@chloeelimam thank you

[@sayrisagal]

Great video! thank you

[@giorginocinzietti8849]

Bravo Alessandro complimenti x il tuo canale !

[@smertnik210]

Hi. Tnx for your tutorial. 20:16 how is that tool ease in - ease out called??

[@niloofarnavaei3752]

Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial. I have a serious problem with overlap and when I offset some controllers I can't find the right loop. I also start from frame 1 to 25 but I offset some frames and then when I play 1-25 it becomes glitchy

[@ratatole]

Thanks for your complete tutorial , could you please give us access to Rig please?

[@acamporota]

No

[@merleawe_]

Thanks so much! I'm a newbie in the field, only been animating in a studio for 2 years... but I've never had a formal education in anim. I really want to get into feature film... but I need to attend formal education(online probably) to get even close to that level. However, I'm afraid to join a course and fall behind others.. maybe it's an irrational fear. Not sure. But thanks a lot! I'll work through some of your tutorials and see if that helps me enough to the point that i'm more comfortable and speedier in the process :>! As for tutorial suggestions; perhaps a tutorial on character weight/balance? And how about having a character walk in one direction; and then turn around to walk in the other direction?

[@acamporota]

Don't let the fear holding you back, the worst mistake that you can do is not to try

[@TipsTV4You]

sir.. i watched your all videos and i am very happy to get your channel...can you teach us some basics of how to create joints ,painting and controls on face ??

[@Siloquid]

My teachers are making this so complicated thanks

[@acamporota]

You are welcome

[@ever6]

Nice I'm surprised you didn't do it moving forward vs in place I'm starting to favor moving fwd I've always done them in place. I mean either way is good just did a vanilla walk for my class basically a refresher. It's been yearsss since AM

[@dragonknightsofantar1737]

Was gonna check out your vid. Looked nice, but the clicking is Gaaaaackkkk!!!!

[@SchindlerDucy]

Great job!

[@user-qu2hv9yh4x]

How did you do the 3 different camera views for the walk cycle in one video?

[@tejaspatil5421]

i dont know !! i might be wrong but thats a implace walk...rig's not moving forward its animating on same place can someone explain please

[@pathikbiswasvisualart]

Very helpful thanks a lot.

[@tinyartmatters369]

whats the pannel thats used above the timeline pannel ????

[@dragoneelyuu]

hi sir , what if i am doing short animation and character has to be in action so what will happen to circle of al mesh ? i mean controler whole thing one at the floor . will it move or stay there ? what is the point of it ? thanks

[@supermum3435]

Really nice tutorial, makes me worried about the standard of my walk cycles /:

[@acamporota]

Then improve it

[@rayanxfit]

Rz & Rx with cog or hip control?? some animators use cog some use hip control, what is the best way??

[@acamporota]

Whatever work best for you

[@vaibhavverma891]

Hello, Can you Pls tell the name of the option and or the plugin software used in @19:16 from which you are creating Tangents from arms.

[@ossama9409]

Animbot

[@vaibhavverma891]

@@ossama9409 well I got that 1 year ago only but anyways Thank you

[@shakeakt]

Hi, when u doing in between of the arm the bar you drag in 20:15 , can I know where to find that ? I'm new in this.

[@learning3d742]

epic tutorial!

[@acamporota]

Thanks.. You should check all the others

[@veronicaplante2332]

Hi! I was wondering how you make the leg shape controls appear during the part where you fix the knee pop. I'm using an AM rig (the Stewart rig), and I'm having a hard time finding the controls. Really loving the tutorial so far!

[@acamporota]

I am not sure Stewart rig has the same controller as this one, usually if you select one of the foot controllers you should find it

[@veronicaplante2332]

@@acamporota Ah, yeah! Looks like Stewart doesn't have that kind of control, but I found if I snap the knee to the knee control, it'll work the same (hopefully).

[@veronicaplante2332]

@Alessandro Camporota Just wanted to follow up and say that I was able to make it work! Loved the tutorial. Thanks so much for making it.

[@fabianf.2300]

Wow, that was quick! How long have you been in the industrie and where did you study?

[@acamporota]

I 've been in the industry for around 9 years and I studied at Animation Mentor

[@fabianf.2300]

@@acamporota Would you still recommend Animation Mentor? I am going to study character animation and I dont really know if that would be a good choice.

[@acamporota]

@@fabianf.2300 back then was a good choice, but there are other good school today. Like anim school or anim squad

[@kianricarze]

not gonna lie but i just used it in roblox studio well it is so smooth

[@andryowyeh3531]

how could you mirror them?? did you do manually or with plugin?

[@stephanieperna4530]

Hao per caso realizzato un video dove spieghi le Basi (passo passo anche cosa selezioni ecc ..)per la camminata(es: il corpo è una pallina e poi ha le gambe e lo fai camminare e saltare?) Grazie

[@acamporota]

no

[@CaCriGuz]

Thnak you so so much. :)

[@yathishs8740]

@ Alessandro Camporota at 19.16 what window is the above the timeline editor?.. and how did you open that??

[@acamporota]

Is a plug in called a tool.. Look the other tutorial on my channel to find out

[@jagotato]

20:16 how is that tool called?? looks interesting....

[@sadhanasriganesan]

yeahh what tool is that bruh???\

[@dennyas2541]

It's animbot

[@melwinrichard258]

thank you

[@deeneislambymuhammadzeesha7928]

hello sir it was so fast how will the startup people will understand?

[@harrylarry1391]

Great Channel!!

[@hhgamingdays4024]

Into my fav video list and new subscribers 😀😊😄😁

[@acamporota]

Welcome to the channel 😊 make sure you watch other video

[@mohammednabil7875]

i just want to know thework flow you recommend more (stepped or spline from the beginning)

[@acamporota]

Depending on the shot, time and person. There is no workflow that works 100% for every one. I prefer step

[@mohammednabil7875]

@@acamporota Thank you

[@Yagizino]

tha hand and fingers are going trough the leg tho... isnt that an issue??

[@irislee7124]

Thanks~!That's very useful! May I know what plug-in you've used when you added arms breakdown frames?

[@acamporota]

Look other video on my channel to learn about it

[@RochanLive2d]

animbot

[@hiteshmakwana9627]

its very good tutorial for fresher's

[@rakshithshetty4043]

thanks, sir really asm work really use full for me lot-lot

[@theObione90]

Hello, Alessandro. You're phenomenal. I am thrilled. Do you have some of your site that we can visit? And is there any of your tutorials about rigging in Maya that we can buy? Cheers.

[@acamporota]

I only have few tutorial about rigging in max

[@JustZino]

best part when you say now to the other side

[@joysanimationstudio2375]

I have question,how about walk from place to another place?

[@3dincredible672]

What is the bar above timeline 21.00 can someone plz tell me is that sone kind of plugin or something..

[@tomy6097]

Hey nice vid, can you tell us whats called the midle bar you use at 19min, you just pop it and i dont even know what it is^^

[@acamporota]

Anim bot

[@tomy6097]

@@acamporota Lovely fast anwer

[@기니피그-g6k]

you are so kind buy i can't make well. TOT I try again... again again.

[@TheDrunkindog]

At 7:14 how do you use that white box that highlights everything in the graph editor?

[@baileyc5854]

It's the Region Tool inside the Graph Editor, there are handles that you click and drag to scale what ever keyframes you have selected in your graph.

[@mayankmaurya2117]

Thankyou

[@Conceptsofsanket]

Why did you do it in auto tangent more and not in stepped mode is there any reason ?

[@acamporota]

Wanted to do something quick

[@swarnalibaral3618]

sir can you make a progressive lady walk cycle please??ty

[@Elhiot]

Nice thank you ! =)