Walk Cycle Animation Tutorial in Maya

   https://vimeo.com/361181759

Learn to animate a character walk cycle in Autodesk Maya 2019 with this in-depth tutorial.

With 4.5 hours of real-time, voiced-over, subtitled videos, this is all you need to animate a walk cycle.

WHAT YOU GET IN THE TUTORIAL PACKAGE

- 4.5 Hours worth of 1080P HD videos in .mp4 format. These videos have voice-over as well as subtitles.

- The Rig used to create this walk cycle, in the .mb Maya format.

- All reference images and videos that were used to create this Walk Cycle.

- All the work in progress Maya files that were created while completing this tutorial. ***NOTE*** These files were created in Autodesk Maya 2019 and will only open in Autodesk Maya 2019.

TUTORIAL OVERVIEW

Introduction to the tutorial and discussion about Walk Cycles

- We discuss what will be covered in this tutorial as well as discuss what a walk cycle is and where it is used

Reference Analysis and Planning

- We find and analyse our reference, and do all our necessary planning before going into Maya 2019

Setting up the Maya scene

- We bring in our Character Rig, go through and discuss the rig, and make sure everything in our Maya scene is ready for us to start animating

Blocking in key Poses

- Using our reference we create the key poses of the walk cycle

Refining the animation

- Using animation principles like overlap and offset, as well as techniques in the Maya Graph Editor, we start to refine our walk cycle animation

Polishing the animation

- Using arc tracking and the Maya Graph Editor, we polish our walk cycle animation to a high level of polish

Creating the final video of the walk cycle for presentation

- We use a simple technique to create a Playblast Video that shows off our walk cycle

Any questions? Contact me at CHPortnoy@gmail.com