This course is designed for beginner animators who understand the basics of the workflow but struggle to give their animation that level of quality and believability typical of professional products.

Walks are the foundation for advanced animation. Mastering walk cycles in 3D animation gives you the confidence and skills to control your human characters in more articulated acted scenes.

At the end of this course you will be able to confidently animate walk cycles, interpret reference footage for animation, and adopt the same techniques professionals employ to produce industry standard animations.

You will learn about:

• Working with video references


• Identifying and designing the key poses of a walk


• Troubleshooting posing


• Mirroring poses both manually and employing easy to use custom tools


• Understanding weight shifts in locomotion


• Controlling the stride


• Fixing sliding feet


• Setting up priorities for splining


• Animation splining and polishing workflows


• Working with animation layers to add details and variations


• Fixing knee pops and intersections


• Making the character move through space