Character Animation: Locomotion

Learn how to create walk, run, and skip animations that give your character style and subtly move the story along.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Maya rig overview
• C4D rig overview

1. Animating Walk Cycles

• Reviewing walk basics
• Understanding walk cycles
• Cycling the feet in a walk
• Animating lower-body poses
• Animating the spine in a walk
• Overlap and follow-through in the arms
• Putting on the finishing touches

2. Refining Walks

• Working with foot placement: Narrow steps
• Working with foot placement: Wide steps
• Modifying key poses to add personality
• Starting a walk
• Stopping a walk
• Limps and injuries

3. Animating Runs

• Basics of a run
• Lower body: Taking a leap
• Lower body: Landing
• Animating the spine and shoulders
• Animating the arms
• Animating the head

4. Animating a Fast Run

• Overview of a fast run
• Start with the extended position
• Animating the cushion position
• Animating the stretch position
• Finalizing a fast run

5. Skips

• Exploring the anatomy of a skip
• Animating a skip: Foot placement
• Animating a skip: Spine
• Animating a skip: Arms
• Animating a skip: Head

Conclusion

• Goodbye