Easy Pixel Art Walk Cycle Tutorial

[@saultoons]

That ending tho... 👀🐉🔥🏠

[@GreenthumbsGarden]

brilliant man!

[@saultoons]

@@GreenthumbsGarden Thanks man!

[@ralseidreemurrrd6199]

x10.5 to go, we can DO THIS

[@saultoons]

We got this!!!

[@saultoons]

@@ralseidreemurrrd6199 EASY LETS GO!!!

[@jonahdevs]

I do not understand how you don't have a larger following. The amount of work you put into these is spectacular

[@saultoons]

Yo Jonah! Sometimes it just be like that :D appreciate the support 😄

[@01froglover0]

!SAVE LUMBAH

[@thegettokidZz]

@@saultoons Hidden gem for sure. Like bitcoin in 2010, all you need is time and commitment, trust in the process. You DO got this.

[@janiomichniewski8877]

hes so unfunny

[@duygusalsacmaliklar]

@@thegettokidZz thanks for reminding me bitcoin... at least Saultoons is getting bigger

[@drijuce]

In school, we studied the history of walk cycles and various animation masterworks. This simple, basic, broken-down 3min tutorial has taught me more applicable information than my high-end animation class has on walk cycles. Formal education institutions really don't understand how to teach practical skills, especially where to start.

[@saultoons]

haha they probably want you to have a thorough understanding, which is fair as this just brushes the basics and there's a LOT more to walks, as I'm sure you know. The best book is Animators Survival Kit!!! :D

[@feliscape]

I always, ALWAYS come back to this video when I am making a walk cycle. That standard walk breakdown is really helpful. Thanks a lot!

[@saultoons]

Thanks! I’d highly highly recommend the Animators Survival Kit book for useful breakdowns of animations :D

[@tenidiotaodpizzy4603]

same

[@DangNguyen-ok3gy]

Love the dramatic storyline!!!! People pls give him likes so we can see how Lumbah fight 👀

[@saultoons]

YES! That would be fun :D

[@01froglover0]

!SAVE LUMBAH

[@person-df1sh]

Thank you so much from Italy You know how to be funny but serious at the same time and I love that

[@saultoons]

Ciao Italia, I love Italy!!! Thanks for the love :}

[@person-df1sh]

♡

[@AzzyWolf247]

Hello amigo

[@person-df1sh]

@@AzzyWolf247 hello

[@billiedeadkid3374]

Underrated channel. You're awesome, my man! You're really helping me a lot!

[@saultoons]

Thanks for the love Billie, glad I can help!

[@01froglover0]

!SAVE LUMBAH

[@onLinkage]

God dammit she's in another castle! why does she keep running from me..! i'm not a stalker, I just love watching princesses! 🤓

[@hehe123okay]

Now what? Tutorial of how to kill a dragon when you’re a tiny elf?

[@saultoons]

hahaha guess you'll have to wait and see

[@kianapoili347]

@@saultoons even tho we did not hit the 5K likes. I and other people would still love a tutorial.

[@saultoons]

It’s planned for the future :)

[@kianapoili347]

@@saultoons nice!

[@01froglover0]

!SAVE LUMBAH

[@ojskjelten3429]

Super helpful, thanks!

[@saultoons]

You're very welcome! Thanks for the support

[@LIAM_PCK0L]

Very helpful, a while back an a ancient god cursed me never to make good walk cycles but this helped me alot!

[@saultoons]

Glad to hear!

[@Mohammad-bo7lo]

I don't know why but this man make a great toutrials (the best part for me it's the sounds he make with his mouth instead of digital sound effects)

[@luckyknot]

Thanks for the walk cycle breakdown sir!

[@MelMacaluso]

Fun, coincise, carefully curated, I wish all tutorials were like this, great job man, keep it up!

[@KaewinIsDeaKuhlste]

I just found your channel threw a comment under Brandon James Greer's newest video and... Why doesn't this get more attention? This is great! The art, the editing, the humor and of course the actual substance of the video! You've definitely got a new subscriber!

[@saultoons]

Thank you for the kind words! :D Brandon is the best, always makes quality content and it's very regular. My style is quite edit heavy so the regularity is difficult to achieve at the minute. I'm still trying to find a nice balance between quality and consistency, but I appreciate the love :D

[@zakar98k]

Your videos are very useful for a person like me, who has no experience in pixel art, and 0 experience in art as a whole. Keep up the good work kind sir!

[@saultoons]

Glad you like the videos Zakar, thanks so much for watching :)

[@Mintypeets]

this animation is so smooth and jigly!

[@saultoons]

I love making jiggly animations 😄

[@Mintypeets]

@@saultoons please keep making them 0-0

[@01froglover0]

!SAVE LUMBAH

[@jackpullen]

Very recently started making pixel art and decided to give a walk cycle a go, was struggling a ton before watching this, thanks for the guide!

[@saultoons]

Great to hear!

[@Eeluum]

This pixel necromancy is getting out of hand... Loving these videos Saul, keep doing what you do

[@saultoons]

It is only just getting started!!!! Thanks Lowhood, appreciate the love :D

[@eboatwright_]

Woohoo! I've been waiting for this one!

[@saultoons]

Me too 🤣 hope it could help

[@ryanmartinson8405]

Oh man, these are so great! Clever, informative, and... funny! :) nice job! GO GET THAT DRAGON!

[@saultoons]

Thanks for the kind words Ryan! We HAVE to get the dragon 🐉

[@andrewandroulidakis5578]

In all seriousness.... Love the video (as always). Great blend of humor and useful information.

[@saultoons]

Thanks Andrew I appreciate it! Hope some people can find the humour in it :)

[@andrewandroulidakis5578]

@@saultoons I might have to add a bald man to my game now... 😂❤

[@andrewandroulidakis5578]

As a kind of easter egg/tribute to the man himself.

[@aieu_.n]

Your tutorials are so greattt. They are all easy to understand (your videos even have English subtitles which I really need!), hilarious and useful. They helped me a lot. Can't wait for the next video!

[@saultoons]

Glad you like them! Another video coming soon :D

[@danieneit6830]

This was super useful (as are all of your videos honestly). I'm a total noob to animation and these are incredible resources! Thanks a ton and thanks for the book recommendation as well!

[@saultoons]

No worries Symone, thanks for the kind words and best of luck with your learning! :D

[@Tempest-kp3nn]

Perfect simple tutorial for a beginner gamedev whos not so good at art. THANK YOU!!!

[@Stratiis]

I’m just starting out with pixel art and these videos are helping a lot! Thanks!

[@saultoons]

Glad I could help Stratis! Good luck with your pixel art journey :)

[@ReddmarQuevedoCarrasquero]

Just in time! I was reading and studying walking animation cycle! Thanks for the tips, great video as usual.

[@ReddmarQuevedoCarrasquero]

BTW, Poor Lumber, disgrace has fallen onto him xD.

[@saultoons]

No problemo Reddmar thanks for watching I hope your work goes well :) and yeah Lumbah is in trouble now :o

[@sega_pico]

THANK YOU SIR . I was struggling with the walk animationand you helped me to fix it . THANKKK YOUUUUUUUUUUUU

[@saultoons]

Glad I could help!

[@sega_pico]

also , you are a great artist and a youtuber .and I have liked you video for your support and killing the dragon

[@paypercutts]

Mate! you make it seem soooo easy! haha! My nxt devlog will be about animating my characters. Took me days and days of fiddling about and studying walking rotoscopes to get walking looking right! This vid will help me alot to perfect it. I'll checkout that book too! Keep up the great work! Cheers!

[@saultoons]

Yeah the book is incredible, full of all sorts of breakdowns like this, I would definitely recommend for sure! Good luck with your characters :)

[@davidvarga2916]

Would love to see a run cycle tutorial + a side by side comparison between walk and run. Really nice video 😀

[@laszloleber9733]

Great video friend! Thank you so much!

[@saultoons]

Thanks for the love Laszlo!

[@LenivoPlay]

0:27 It's simple and awesome! Many Thanks Man!!!!!

[@calcite_dragon]

This was very helpful! Thanks!

[@saultoons]

Glad I could help! Thanks for watching claythedragon :)

[@ChaosTime22]

Thanks God for you video man!!! Thank you very much!! I could finally animate my character walking o.o

[@MoominLeGrand]

just discovered ur channel,its so good u deserve more subs

[@saultoons]

Thanks a lot!

[@mariothelongtongue4657]

the rotation part of the marquee and lasso tools are really useful for the walk cycle because they have a rotation feature if you have like an leg

[@saultoons]

True that! Rotation tools give a nice starting point to clean up from

[@michaelshollaj6428]

Amazing tutorial and very well explained, thanks for the amazing tutorials 🔥

[@saultoons]

Thanks Michael, more to come! :D

[@michaelshollaj6428]

@@saultoons Can't wait :D

[@jgarale]

thanks for teaching us, very well explained!!

[@saultoons]

No problem hope it can help!

[@rickmortie4577]

Thank you so much,i've ben struggling for soooo long and this really helped !

[@saultoons]

Glad I could help :D Hope it goes well for you!

[@agent2596]

I am in a game design class and we need to learn pixel art for it. this is super helpful!

[@saultoons]

Glad I could help, good luck with the class!

[@nasar4334]

Thank you so much saul :D

[@saultoons]

Thanks Nasar, appreciate the love

[@madcountofdumont7742]

Yeah this is exactly what I needed cheers mate

[@saultoons]

No worries at all, hope it could help :)

[@schrodinger547]

new subscriber here, this tutorial is the simplest, cool and funny at the same time.

[@saultoons]

I'm glad you like it! Thanks for subscribing and watching the video :}

[@donnygabai6150]

Absolutely solid man, thank you!

[@CazCreates]

Really liked the way you presented this walk animation! Your videos are always top quality, nice work man, thanks for sharing! LD

[@saultoons]

Yo Caz! Thanks for the love I appreciate that a lot 😄

[@cosmic_417]

Cool video, you're awesome, my man! You really help me a lot to make games!

[@saultoons]

Thanks Tricky! Glad I can help :)

[@tutziroll]

Lmao I just found you for tips and you're really entertaining. I really hope to see more from ya!

[@saultoons]

Thanks Bluigi :D More to come :)

[@dominickay9423]

Made it look so easy!!

[@saultoons]

Thanks bro!!!!!

[@shanehof1022]

These videos are the best

[@saultoons]

Thanks for the love Shane!

[@Johanofkarlsson]

Really helpful tutorial, so you sir, got a new sub :)

[@saultoons]

Thanks for the support :)

[@diegonogoful]

Where are the likes??? this tutorial is simple and amazing!!!!

[@saultoons]

Glad it could help :) thanks for the love

[@peyajays]

Thank you so much very useful

[@saultoons]

No Primo, thank you!

[@peyajays]

@@saultoons no, thank YOU

[@muskrat1910]

I watch this while having miniboss's blog up in the tab and it is so much easier, If you don't have asperite you can use steam pixel studio, also this guy is a blessing for me i am having so much trouble with walk animations

[@saultoons]

Hope it could help thanks for watching :)

[@muskrat1910]

@@saultoons i like your vids but i cant do your asperite tutorials because of money reasons, imma just help the channel by not skipping the ads 🙂

[@saultoons]

Well I appreciate that massively. You watching the videos is a lot of support already! And the tips from aseprite should be transferable to other software because they’re all quite similar in tools :D

[@djlclopez128]

I was watching this video while my husband was asleep next to me. The ending started to play, and my husband woke up thinking I was watching something demonic. Haha 😂

[@saultoons]

hahahaha well, animation can be demonic if you think about it, bringing un-living things to life :'D

[@tfb2k-2nd]

Thank you so much! This helped!

[@saultoons]

So glad it could help, thanks for watching :D

[@lanzjypol]

KZbin notif went first before the discord notif

[@saultoons]

You got the youtube notifications on?! Respect :D

[@peyajays]

Same!

[@JapaneseTop1]

For real, this is the first time in MANY years that I understand and create an animation. I really want to create a videogame.

[@saultoons]

Awesome I hope it goes well :D

[@JapaneseTop1]

@@saultoons Yes, can you do one for jumping animation?

[@saultoons]

@@JapaneseTop1 Might get onto that in the future sure, but I would recommend checking out my other animation tutorials, they will teach you all you need to know to create animations with simple processes :)

[@JapaneseTop1]

@@saultoons Thank you, well... based on this video, I found inspiration in the book you said. I made my own jumping sprite and I'm so proud of it haha. Thank you again.

[@saultoons]

Awesome! 😁

[@blooburrydraws]

ur vids are such good quality :0

[@saultoons]

Thanks Blueberry

[@tulipproductions1362]

The sound effects always make me chuckle 😂

[@saultoons]

haha glad you like em!

[@geolgirl]

I've only just found this as I'm trying animate an emote :) it's been super useful thank you!

[@saultoons]

Glad I could help Geolgirl :D

[@ko4an498]

Finally, now we can go somewhere...

[@saultoons]

Or can we... That ending tho

[@lymx4604]

So cleaaar ! Thanks !

[@saultoons]

You're welcome LyMx, thanks so much for watching :D

[@SigilWizardClassic]

Let's get that DRAGON! AHHH!

[@saultoons]

5000 likes... LETS GO!!!

[@01froglover0]

!SAVE LUMBAH

[@abdulfatahnafilatalkarim]

Short, simple, but really helpful

[@saultoons]

Glad it could help Abdul :D

[@ayjay5157]

This was perfectly timed.

[@saultoons]

Hope it could help!

[@GreenthumbsGarden]

i like to walk around not moving my arms at all... like an abominable snowman of some sort... Grab your pitchforks, let's get that dragon!!

[@saultoons]

hahah would certainly be a lot easier to animate. Yes, you can provide the pitchforks and other dangerous gardening tools!!

[@01froglover0]

!SAVE LUMBAH!

[@CarpathianWasteGroup]

keep these coming!

[@saultoons]

More videos on the way, thanks for the support! :D

[@justnik7939]

thanks for this I'm doing my final for college and I needed a good reference on walking ( I'm studying animation) P.S Merry Christmas

[@saultoons]

Nice hope it went well! Merry Christmas to you too :)

[@skullcommandolabs]

Haha ! The Evil Laughter ! Yes !

[@saultoons]

MWUH HA HA HAAAAA

[@skullcommandolabs]

@@saultoons Hahahahahahahahahahahaha !

[@NEERAJKUMAR-iy9kn]

wow, great video.

[@saultoons]

Thanks Neeraj, I hope it could help :)

[@PavleVA]

I like your content, really good stuff.

[@saultoons]

Thanks, PavleVA! Appreciate that :D

[@somentegamers8479]

Thanks! You have just saved me!

[@nsepicdiy9701]

That ending was fire

[@saultoons]

OH YEH!!!

[@HeightAboveSeaLevel]

Looks like we made it to 5K likes. Time to slay that dragon.

[@saultoons]

Progress is being made :'D

[@tyrondeonarine1348]

Thank you

[@saultoons]

Tyron thanks for watching and being a subscriber for over 3 months!!!! We love you

[@ECAKJ]

Do you have a tutorial on splitting the character into parts? Is that with layers?

[@saultoons]

No tutorial, but yeah, all done with layers, the parts that need to be in front like the head on top of the body would be on a higher layer! :)

[@LlamaBG]

yo yo, whats popping saultoons!

[@saultoons]

Yo waddup Andy 😄

[@USNTM2]

As a fellow content creator, I really like the way you put the carrot on the stick! 5k likes! I'll cast my vote to get the dragon!

[@saultoons]

Haha thanks! One day we’ll get there I’m not sure what I’m doing so much with this story atm

[@random_homeless_dude]

Wow this is great!

[@diego_garcia_cacho]

Dragons are friends, misunderstood, lumbah might be able to train him!

[@saultoons]

We're just going to have to wait and see!

[@chadharvey92]

Thanks for the video! Will you be doing a video that explains how to make the background move with him?

[@saultoons]

A parallax background? It’s fairly simple though I messed it up a bit in this video haha. Perhaps I’ll show this in the future :)

[@chadharvey92]

That would be awesome! I’d really enjoy that, as well as when the character is walking and the scenery is changing as he’s walking, as if the character was walking past them. I’m not sure if that’s the same thing or not.

[@SUPERCUUBEE]

This was so helpful thx!

[@saultoons]

No problem!

[@michdie1046]

I'm not subscribed, but I liked so that Lumbah could have vengeance against that dragon

[@saultoons]

Hahaha appreciate your commitment to the cause 😄

[@Ordelos]

super nice video :)

[@saultoons]

Thanks Robin!

[@salmon_vegetable_plate]

I have a question in the first walk cycle example isnt the back leg and front leg need to swap after frame 6?

[@wonkieannie2057]

this looks neat, can you make an elf next?

[@saultoons]

haha yeah maybe in the future!

[@brandonjacksoon]

Cool thanks! Liked and subscribed :) If possible, please, create a tutorial for a knight or mage. Running, shooting, dashing :)

[@saultoons]

Thanks Brandon, I'll add it to the list of requests, though If you check out my Pixel Art Character Process video you will learn a nice process for creating characters yourself that may be of some help :D

[@brandonjacksoon]

@@saultoons Cool, thank you! I will check ;))

[@ratstar4102]

Hi Saultoons, Is there a tutorial where you can make pixel art of your friend and how will it look similar to their appearance?

[@saultoons]

Like a portrait for likeness, this can be difficult for sure, maybe we can look at this in the future :D

[@frifripsychic5890]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I laughed so hard when his little house was burning. We need to save him

[@saultoons]

hahaha you laughed?!?!? Maybe you are the evil one :'D

[@leolaudann3173]

So close to 5000!!!

[@saultoons]

haha yes!!! Don't worry we're going after that dragon :D Hopefully share more lumbahverse in the future, my next game is based on it :)

[@0perator3rror]

I’m too invested in this character now

[@saultoons]

Hahaha more Lumbah-verse to come!

[@kenosjumpscares]

I like how you used the pico 8 16 color pallet

[@saultoons]

Love Pico 8 palette!

[@Bad_animationz]

TYSM!!

[@donkeygamer6585]

whenever i rotate something that is on a separate layer it effects other layers after i click off, also im asking here cuz nobody on the discord replied to my question 😭😭

[@saultoons]

Yo Donkey Gamer, can't say I've come across this. Ping me on Discord with an example of what is happening :)

[@donkeygamer6585]

@@saultoons i think i fixed it but ill ping you if it happens again

[@saultoons]

@@donkeygamer6585 Gotcha :D

[@nahruz.w3044]

Nice

[@saultoons]

Thanks Nahruz!!!

[@rafaeloctaviopinedamosquer9281]

can you make a video about how to make lumbah run.

[@saultoons]

Oh YAH!!! More videos like this coming because I'm working on a lil Lumbah game hehe! :D

[@dookcurruff9047]

that walk infographic is good bald

[@saultoons]

Thank you

[@youchinafriend]

hello, my name is Victor, I am 14, I am from Ukraine. I would like to say that no matter what you do and continue to shoot suitable content, thank you for such wonderful lessons. 🙆‍♂️😃

[@saultoons]

Hello Victor, thanks for leaving a nice message I’m glad I could help! Good luck with your art

[@youchinafriend]

@@saultoons thank you very much, I'll draw a graphics for the igor, I'll do my games on Unity!

[@saultoons]

Good luck :D

[@youchinafriend]

@@saultoons tnx)

[@andrewandroulidakis5578]

Saultoons: 5'000 likes and we'll go get that dragon. Me: 2:47-2:49

[@saultoons]

Hahahahaha true! The dislikes will be real 👎

[@01froglover0]

!SAVE LUMBAH

[@coleymoley514]

NAUR THE ENDING THO😭😭😭😭

[@saultoons]

rip :'(

[@artasky6093]

😮he finally can walk!!

[@saultoons]

hahaha NOW TO WATCH HIM BURN :|

[@artasky6093]

@@saultoons NOOOOO 😭😭