Maya Basic Animation Tutorials - Walk Cycle | A Step by Step Guide

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Thanks a lot for all your support , I will try my best effort to create more tutorials to help all the students around the world. If there are any other topics about animation that you wish to learn , please leave the comment down below and let me know. Here's female version of walkcycle, can refer to here kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmS7gKContyDfpY

[@linnhmaw]

Thanks for the effort...it will come back to ya...

[@rektgambler]

i need to download this model now,, i have a practical, will paypal u 30$

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

@@rektgambler It is free , you can get it from ultimate rig , search in google

[@thecuriousbeing2969]

23:30 Unable to do what you did in the graph editor.

[@any2951]

Hi! Please understand that I am not good at English. I was so grateful that I wanted to leave a comment. Thank you very much! It was a great help to me. Walking has become very natural. If you have a chance, could you post a run cycle tutorial next time? because your tutorial it's too easy to understand and It's hard for me to run cycle. Of course, I'm not forcing you. :O

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

sure , give me a week , i will try to squeeze some free time and work on it and make sure you benefit from my tutorial , Thanks for supporting

[@Kok_Onut0]

Thank you so much, your videos makes me love animation again

[@MytischCrafts]

I just wanted to say THANK YOU, the tutorial was super clear, fast and to the point. (my teachers cant do that) I'll definitely recommend you to my student friends that need help animating :)

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Thanks for your support. Glad that it helps.

[@Sachin_Negi1998]

thanku bro, this tutorials help me after 3 year love form Uttrakhand, INDIA

[@WillemoesJ]

You're a life saver! This is the best and most comprehensive tutorial I've seen in a good while. It's very thorough. Thank you so much for this

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Thank you for the compliments and support and you're welcome. Please help to share to others who need it as well. Thanks

[@ElvinAkira]

I just want to let you know that your tutorial really helped me with my school's task! Even I couldn't make it as smooth as yours, but the hip's moving really nice (for me). Thank you so much!

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Thank you for your support and im happy that the video helps. Im actually a University Lecturer too that teaches animation subjects. I know lots of student are facing problems and needed help on it. Thats why i created this and share it to thr world so whoever needs it can just watch and learn from it.

[@snat2633]

Thank you so much! I learnt walk cycles in college, but I havent done a cycle in years becuase i've only been doing shot work, and this was an amazing refresher to cure my looming task paralysis!☺

[@arka.prabha]

Thanks a lot for making this video. It was at a time when I was stuck in college with an inexperienced teacher teaching us Human Locomotion and movement and my friend recommended this video to me. This video saved me!

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Thanks and glad that it helps you in your learning journey. Cheers

[@LycheeFast]

thank you so much you saved my student year in 3D animation

[@lavanyam2892]

This was so useful. Thanks for uploading such quality content. Ive been playing this video over and over again to learn. I missed the classes where my professor taught us how to animate the walk cycle. I was worried I wouldnt be able to do it. Thanks to your video, I was saved :D

[@kiwi6128]

This was immensely helpful, thank you so much for your hard work!

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

You're welcome and thanks for the support

[@im.anuragsingh]

very helpfull this vedio for beginner , thankyou so much sir

[@Jessicanimation]

You are a lifesaver and bless your channel. This is helping me so much in my 3D Animation class!

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Hi there , you're welcome and thank you for your support

[@laurasierra3172]

I just want to tell you how much this video helped me for my homework, I did it amazing! And I also learned a lot to handle Maya! The tutorial is very easy to follow, and your explanations are very good! Greetings from Mexico :DD

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Great job! and I'm glad that it helps you out in your learning Journey. Thank you so much for your support and please do share to those who need it as well.

[@prama1814]

makasih sir tugas ku jadi selesai😎

[@mitchalegron4977]

This helped me a lot, thank you for the upload. Good techniques.

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Glad it helped! and thank you for your support , please share to those who need it as well.

[@lilli-luisaheckmann4740]

Thank you very much for this great video, I love these step by step guides!

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for your support and do help me to share to those who need this as well.

[@eambot]

Great tutorial! question though... would you not address the knee pops on each of the leg's slide back? around frames 7 and 19?

[@shayantikabose7057]

It was so helpful ❤thank you so much....please drop a sneak walk tutorial next time

[@vedangsharma1000pixels]

thank you very much for this phenomenal tutorial

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

You are welcome and thank you for your support. Please help to share to those who need it as well.

[@jannzon4548]

Man, what a wonderful tutorial. Thank you so much!

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

you're welcome and thank you for your support.

[@Luisa-hf3qd]

Thank you so much for this extremely useful tutorial :)))

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

you are welcome and thanks for your support

[@DhanushKumarBCUBVA2020Student]

Hi your tutorial helped me a lot thank you so much

[@sanjukarumuri2169]

your teaching is awsome please teach Dog Walk-Cycle please

[@jardimdacaqui]

When I set the keyframes for the arms, it modifies the ones for the legs too, as if they were working together. What could be happening?

[@OwaisAhmedcooldude]

Both arms and legs could be selected?

[@ulsing1213]

It was a good tutorial. Thank you for making it easy to learn.

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

you are welcome , and thanks for the support

[@grimgames843]

Thank you so much. You're a very good teacher

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

You are welcome and thank you for your compliments and support

[@raheejkhan7520]

Such a smooth explanation

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Thanks for the compliments and thanks for your support

[@aakashpran813]

Really helpful thank you so much... ❤❤

[@hamayounriaz6063]

Thank you so much for such a great tutorial bro. :)

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for your support

[@hamayounriaz6063]

@@LEARNCGIwithYawyee Hello Sir Thank you for your response. I have a question can you please guide me I want to walk my character on motion path what I need to do after attaching the main controller to the motion path without having sliding feet issue? Thank you in advance. :)

[@swidenjil]

3,000th subscriber! Hehe great video! ❤️

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Thanks for your support

[@joeharmony6949]

why does the previous position changes when i make a new key ahead?

[@Itheo378]

This is awesome, thank you!

[@yawyeeloo]

thank you and hope you learned well.

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

You're very welcome!

[@movpopmusic3611]

Thanks 👍 alot for such helpful information

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Glad that you grab some useful info & techniques on animation from my video. Thank you for your support and please help to share to anyone who needed it too. Thanks

[@martindavalos7136]

nice! how do you cycle from a point A to a point B instead of being infinite?

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

you mean progressive walk cycle can simply use the circle controller at the bottom , set keys moving from point a to b , it will move the whole character. but have to check and time the distance properly by measuring it , and turn the curve tangent to linear , or else it will become controlling game character sliding / gliding through ice.

[@ashvindaulagala3774]

Thank you for the video sir!

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Happy Learning , and thank you for your support

[@francoferrari8905]

Thank you so much for this tutorial ! Really usefull 💯💯

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for your support

[@creativewarsbysarfaraz1577]

Bro I just gain some knowledge. nice 👍👍👍👍

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Glad to hear that , happy learning

[@yashas007]

Great video! Thanks

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Thanks for the support

[@raol635]

Very clean work. I am just wondering if this takes this much of time. How long it takes to make an animation movie of 20 min for example?

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

It depends , on the amount of characters , and the amount of detail you put in. If you are working alone , it could be 2 months with good quality and alternatively 2 or 3 characters in a scene.

[@anshuff8276]

thankyou so much for this tutorial

[@tatugawd]

You are far better than udemy tutors

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Hey , thank you so much for your support.

[@tatugawd]

@@LEARNCGIwithYawyee expecting more tutz boss 😃

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

@@tatugawd , I will start posting more tutorials again end of Feb , recently been really busy with projects, working and rushing till midnight most of the time , sorry to kept you guys waiting.

[@prasham5963]

I am not sure why you didn't noticed this but, if you see the heel ball is having a jerky motion because of a sudden change from values 3.8 to 5, 5 being the value at passing position. Also the visible knee jerks. Other than that, thanks a lot for the tutorial. 😊

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Great that you learned quickly , I recorded this while teaching my student about. Maybe I miss it out and I dint notice during that time. Thanks anyway.

[@prasham5963]

@@LEARNCGIwithYawyee I just brought this up for future viewers, hehe. Once again thanks a lot for this tutorial, it is a step by step process, from blocking out to smoothing out the cycle. I am glad that I was directed here to your video, thanks a lot again. Now I have my first ever walk cycle in my beginner showreel 😊😊 Hoping a lot of content from you!

[@sophiethomson-je5gd]

I have done exactly what you have done in the video with 24fps but mine is moving so much faster. How can I fix that?

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Can check right click on time and play with real time , it will play normally according to real time

[@iSeeRocketLeague]

When copying keyframes for arms it seems to paste whole keyframe instead of just selected parts... any help?

[@jardimdacaqui]

Mine is the same, did you manage to find a solution?

[@arkachakraborty5784]

Thank you saved us

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

you're welcome. Thank you for your support and please help to share to those who need it as well.

[@hossx2001]

Best explanation ever

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Hi therr, thank you for the compliments and support. Please help to share to those who need it as well.

[@crashman3281]

I don't know why but when I press the "play" button to see how the animation is looking, the frames go ridiculously fast so I can't really tell if it's good or not I don't why does that happen, I'm kinda new to 3D Edit: nevermind, just found out how to fix this

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Glad that you found the solution , it is the play everyframe instead of playing realtime settings

[@antoinelicg-island6354]

很棒的教程，感谢分享！！期待更多的动画教学！

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

谢谢你的支持和鼓励。Thank you

[@lexxrelaxx2016]

Hello, it will be my first try to character. I rigged at mixami but in Maya i dont see joints like your screen. Should i do something extra for controlling the joints?

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Actually you can just download this character by searching it at google, it is free , Ultimate Rig Bony. Then you can get the same results as I have because you wont have rig issues

[@MisakiChan]

thank you so much this was so helpfull ♥

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Thanks for your support , please help to like and share to those who need this too.

[@samudraroy1208]

Thank You....Its help me alot........

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Glad to hear that and thanks for your support and do help me to share to those who need this as well.

[@abecoyne6302]

Hey I am going through this great tutorial at the moment but for some reason, the animation is running much faster the. Yours, I have it set at 24fps so am confused 🤷‍♂️! Any help would be great 😊

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Hi there , thanks for reaching out. Usually regarding speed it will be the playback speed that set to play everyframe by mistake. But since you have set to 24 , it should be correct. Would you mind email me the file in ma format, so i can help you to check. [e-mail]

[@samuelsaksono9414]

Sorry for bad eng. What a great tutorial for beginners like me, but I have some problems. I don't know why but when I put keyframes for the animation, Maya doesn't want to automatically create the "in-between" on it. So it's like giving a laggy effect, maybe there is some mistakes in the settings?. I would be very grateful if someone gave me a solution for it🙏

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Thanks for your suppport. Regarding ur problems , could it possibly be stepped tangent ? Can right click at ur timeline and check if the stepped tangent is turned off. Enable stepped tangent will preview the so called laggy effect.

[@samuelsaksono9414]

​@@LEARNCGIwithYawyee Thank you for the reply, but after I changed from stepped to another tangent, only the left foot had the in between and that was only from frame 1 to 13, the rest was still the same. By the way, what is the default tangent? I've also tried setting it from the animation preferences which is next to "auto keyframe toggle" button, but there was still something wrong with it. Sorry to bother, you don't need to be forced to answer it :)

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

@@samuelsaksono9414 you should turn off stepped and turn on real time preview. Sorry that my comment that confuses you. What i initially meant was , check if stepped is on , if it is . That could be the reason it looks jagged because stepped only read the frame it is keyed. Which also means you should turn off if that is the reason causing the "lag" u mean.

[@samuelsaksono9414]

@@LEARNCGIwithYawyee Owhh sorry, ya i just realized that. yes it's already turned off, but there is still wrong. Is it possible if the problem is with the graph editor?

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

@@samuelsaksono9414 Do check also if it is playing real time , by right clicking the timeline. Sometimes if play too fast , pc speed cant catch up and it will also shows the lag problem. After turn it on , and right click on timeline to do a playblast , it captures your animation into a video clip , that will shows you the real speed , then you can check that video , if it plays smoothly , then it means your animation have no problem , it is just the playback setting in real time or hardware accelerate problem. If the video you created shows the animation is laggy , yeah , then you might have to into curve editor to fix it.

[@simonebergamini7240]

Wonderful, thanks!!!

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

thank you for your support and hope you learn something from it. thanks

[@bhaskarmaity2890]

Wonderful Video. But how to make a pose to pose walking animation?

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

thanks for the comment. For pose to pose , you have to move the body controller, and both the leg controller in front , without leg sliding back.

[@bhaskarmaity2890]

@@LEARNCGIwithYawyee Thanks man. I'll try.

[@vaidehik8565]

that "yay" on 26:47 was so cute smh, took away my concentration hehe

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

lol

[@Jeckurosaki]

many thanks great video really ^^

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

You're welcome! and thank you for your support

[@jayeshbidaye1866]

Hie While referencing the character the textures are not coming proper can u help ??

[@Mysistaandme]

This video was amazing

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

thank you for your support and glad that it helps

[@KAhmed00]

Hello, I hope you're doing well. Would it be possible for you to kindly share the project file file with me? Your assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance!"

[@jdp2819]

What would a happy walking cycle be like?

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Can check my double bounce walk cycle video

[@abhijitbandal6082]

Thank You So Much 😊

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

you're welcome and thank you for your support

[@meshwgesh9696]

1:20 begins animating

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

thanks for pointing out

[@kidiesclub]

Hi, my set keyframes keep coming off once I click on something else. making it impossible to animate. Please how do I fix that?

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

did you turn on autokey ?

[@claudiaortega6459]

how do you make your rig ?? its not human ik is it ? I am trying to find the way to make my rigs more clear like yours as i quite struggle to animate with mine, do you use any plug ins ?

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

HI Claudia , the rig is a pre-rigged character named Ultimate Bony. You can check the link under the description down below where to download it.

[@sayedmrf5779]

Thank you sir😇

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Welcome 😊 and thanks for your support

[@danigmod11csxd]

When i copy a key with the selected bone and paste it on another keyframe, it pastes the position of all the bones instead of the selected bone. Is there a way to fix this?

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

It could be a missed selection by double clicking it. Can go to outliner and select the exact bone name , then copy and paste it should work.

[@khoa2449]

How much college tuition did you just save everyone?

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

thanks for your support

[@nhatto1716]

can i send my walk cycle to you so that you could have a look at it. I did the same as you did but the legs didnt look right

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

yes , why not.

[@tatugawd]

Thank you so much

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

you're welcome and thank you for your support

[@lipidoverdose934]

When I did this all my arm had key frames where my legs were, So whenever I pressed S it keyed the whole model, how would I fix this?

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

you can click on the keys that you need to delete , which has the red line , right click and choose delete

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

or if you wish to delete the entire channel , say "x" , for example , right click on the channel , choose break connection

[@kuldeepsharma2630]

thanks, buddy it's to helpfully

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Most welcome! Glad to hear that

[@thedukeofkybertron7737]

thanks could you post something about using multiple figures within one animation movie Ex: mario super bros

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

I will get into it in later stages when i have more free time . Thanks for your support.

[@fin4al]

why do my frames keep disappearing whenever i click off the limb controller. and yes i have auto keyframe on. any ideas? Thanks!

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

the controller needs to be remain selected when you wish to view the keyframes on the timeline

[@nikhilvalugonda4195]

can i get this animation file please? awesome tutorial

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Hi thanks for your support and sorry to say that I do not have this original animation file anymore , but you can download the rig named Ultimate Bony Rig and follow along the tutorial

[@h.exp96]

Thanks!

[@unaib7329]

you are just amazing amazing amazing amazing

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

thank you for your support

[@P3Connect]

How can I get the rig now? it's no longer available to download

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Hi there , it is still available , you can go to google and search bony ultimate rig, thrn click the first link

[@warriormaddy420]

thank you

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Welcome. Thanks for the support

[@jatangimunender918]

I want to learn character animation how to start begginers . it's easy or hard sir

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

it is not difficult if you learned the correct way. You can start with my bouncing ball tutorial first , kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIuVYZiNp82hh80 , then slowly learn your way up to simple walk cycle , stylize walk cycle and etc

[@wkwkwkejie]

Thx I love this vedio

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Thank you for your support and I’m glad that you like it.

[@havydirtysoul]

thanks a lot ~

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

You're welcome 😊

[@ChavaKross]

How can i make this a progresive walk cycle?

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

If you wish to make him walk on an actual distance , we can parent the main ctrl to another circle/curve, and animation the curve across a certain distance , and have all the keys on this character have infinity cycle

[@rektgambler]

where can i download the animated modelfor this?

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

just search Ultimate bony RIG on the internet

[@KiseloMliako]

The "mighty" Maya doesn't have a copy/past mirror pose/key? ... Really?

[@joshcxa]

Not built in, no. There have always been tools that do this.

[@andrejharry7299]

whats the name of the rig.

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

It is bony , ultimate rig www.behance.net/gallery/17774421/Ultimate-Rigs-for-FREE

[@ChaitanyaZite-ig8iz]

Sir ajun ashe video banava

[@unaib7329]

please please please I'm YOur big fan how to add bones in animation make that tutorial please please please please please

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

You mean rigging a character?

[@unaib7329]

@@LEARNCGIwithYawyee yes Sir I mean Character rigging for beginner with controller I hope you will upload soon Your explaining way is nice I am very happy for your reply thank you so much Sir May you live long!

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

@@unaib7329 hey , thank you for your interest, I will put that in the list and I will create it once I have free time. Thanks again for your support

[@unaib7329]

@@LEARNCGIwithYawyee Thank you so much

[@raulrodriguezcastro2370]

Vídeo of controlers please

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

Sorry i dont teach rigging.

[@uttiyapurkait9842]

toe up dn not working any help ?

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

are you getting the latest rig ?

[@uttiyapurkait9842]

@@LEARNCGIwithYawyee yes it was the maya software issue 2023 maybe wrong download or something, installed 2022 maya now it is working fine. Thanks for the great tutorial ❤️

[@uttiyapurkait9842]

@@LEARNCGIwithYawyee sir can you check my animation and tell me where i can improve or do better ?

[@aayushdubey8327]

cant set up keyframe

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

select the controller and press s to set key , or turn on autokey , option 3, right click on the parameters under channel box and hit key selected

[@CashflowEmpire-e4f]

Link to maya 3D software

[@emiliogerman4553]

46:38

[@victoriabasilico]

This is amazing! Thank you!

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

You're so welcome!

[@ananyaus6181]

Hey, my auto keyframe toggle is turned on but the keyframes are not getting filled automatically in between, what do I do?

[@LEARNCGIwithYawyee]

just check when you drag the timeline , does the animation shows ? If it does , then maybe you accidentally turn on from timeline > rightclick > display key ticks ( there are 2 modes , from channel box & active keys ) check if yours is selecting the channel , and change back to active keys

[@kalaivananthirumurugan9395]

@@LEARNCGIwithYawyee i drag the timeline and animation does not shows on workspace and how to solve this?

[@alexanderstephen1567]

I put the keyframes into the timeline but it does not work. Any help?

[@tiltyhehe5879]

auto keyframe must be off

[@alexanderstephen1567]

@@tiltyhehe5879 Yes, that was the problem. Thanks.