Animation Masterclass: How to Create Walk Cycles in Maya

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In this tutorial I break down my workflow for animating walk cycles in Maya, we'll start with studying references to understand the mechanics of a walk then jump into Autodesk Maya and start animating!
Body Mechanics Rig: anim-matt.gumroad.com/l/hcAMR
References used: drive.google.com/file/d/1lLcv...
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0:00 Intro
2:51 Breaking Down the Reference
26:33 Body Mechanics Rig Overview
36:10 Animbot
36:55 Setting Up the Maya Scene
44:40 Creating the Contact Pose
1:06:46 Mirroring Contact Pose
1:12:06 Animating the Up and Down of the Hips
1:17:22 Animating the Legs
1:28:20 Animating the Chest, Hips and Spine
1:39:04 Animating the Head + Mirroring the Cycle
1:49:30 Cleaning Up the Graph Editor and Creating a Smooth Loop
2:03:55 Starting on the Right Arm
2:11:30 Finishing the Right Arm
2:25:57 Mirroring the Arm Animation
2:30:03 Final Polish
2:40:53 Translating the Walk Forward

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@_eggs_bene 8 күн бұрын

tysm for this video, as someone coming from blender and trying to learn maya im finding it so frustrating when i run into random glitches in the cycle and without this video i probably wouldve just gone insane haha

@dawnshadow16 Ай бұрын

Hey Mark- I followed along with this video and learned a TON. You are such an inspiration to me as an animator and its incredible we live in a world where we can access educational content from pros like yourself for free, thank you so much. Walk cycles can be so challenging but I love your workflow here, I find it difficult to build pose to pose but using this spline method makes so much sense and prevents a lot of the popping I was having building pose to pose. I feel a lot more confident in tackling different kinds of walk cycles and make something for my reel. My goal is to be a creature animator like yourself one day, your work is such an inspiration!

@Kids_Club_TV 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to highlight the importance of considering visibility in walk cycles. It's crucial for us at the moment, and adding just a line or two about it can make a significant difference. Walk cycles pose a considerable challenge in animation, and I appreciate someone shedding light on the plight of us animators!

@animaterob 6 ай бұрын

This is my fav walk tutorial hands down. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdOkhsShy7fdgac.html

@MountainMakerCreations 2 ай бұрын

i have produced 3 walk cycles with this tutorial and is currently doing my fourth! also my 3rd time rewatching the entire video, please more masterclasses on body mechanics, such a rare in depth content, thank you mark!

@nikekid009 6 ай бұрын

dude, i've been chipping away at my walk cycle animation for a few days now. This is perfect timing. Thank you!!

@filipepereira844 2 ай бұрын

Awesome tutorial Mark, just finished my walk cycle. Now it's time to do it over and over again :) Thank you for giving back to the community!!

@Sherif-the-Watcher 2 ай бұрын

He's a 💎 I just discovered dis yesterday and I'm really grateful, i don't think "thank you" is enough Most people sell dis kinda tutorial and their tutorials are not even elaborating the process in depth

@Chwezi.Filmmaker 3 ай бұрын

this is the only youtube video about walk cycles to be verified. thanks genius :)

@DankDoodles 6 ай бұрын

Love this level of detail in a class like this.

@DeJayAnimation 6 ай бұрын

Always a pleasure! Truly a concept that is important to master. Thanks!

@forzamaya4087 6 ай бұрын

you're like blender guru for maya thanks for doing this

@SmithRamone1 6 ай бұрын

Love your content man, thanks for all of it

@vamboo8918 6 ай бұрын

Thanks mark! Loves your workflow

@_KiMoN_ 6 ай бұрын

wow i am waiting for this tutorial for long time thank you. i hope you doing more masterclass

@Josje95 6 ай бұрын

I appreciate you!!! Thanks for always making amazing, free content

@SURREALMOOKIE 5 ай бұрын

This is amazing

@DannySi 6 ай бұрын

Even though I'm learning Blender's animation side, this is still a fantastic video for learning a walk cycle. Everything pretty much transfers over since Blender basically shares all the features. Doing the animation in even keyframes (4/8/12/16) makes it so much easier to follow along with as well. Also, this is my first time seeing Maya and wow, it's kinda crazy how much easier it is to do certain things in blender. like copy and pasting the value of something vs just hovering over the value and ctrlc. Or gradually increasing a value vs just holding shift. Or making animations cyclic. Mirroring poses. In Blender everything is just a shortcut away and built in. Could just be my unfamiliarity with Maya though. great video

@AnthonyHortin 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for such an in depth explanation for creating a walk cycle. This has been super helpful 🙏

@LFA_GM 2 ай бұрын

A genuine masterclass. Thank you so much for this in-depth explanation. Your workflow with the geometry cache was really smart and helpful. I used the same rig and it helped me to understand the poses and controller rotations. As a side note, I used Studio Library for saving my poses and its mirror script works better for me.

@Shagusan 2 ай бұрын

Best Tutorial Ever

@JoshPurple 6 ай бұрын

Excellent, Thank You 🏆😁👍!

@heraclea9368 Ай бұрын

This is incredible thank you so much for making this video, so so helpful and precise, love it!

@derinthomas7670 5 ай бұрын

thank you ♥

@kiranova68 5 ай бұрын

Guys note that MP4 files doesnt work (40:24) But Mov does !

@thesoundofart7124 Ай бұрын

How did you convert it please? I keep getting an error in Maya

@Andres-wq6cz 2 ай бұрын

Thanks

@busterkeaton767 5 ай бұрын

спасибо тебе парень ты лучший

@Slope3D 6 ай бұрын

Hi Mark FIrst of all its an amazing tutorial its help me alot in my 3d animation journey. One thing I would like to ask how can i repeat walk animation only specific time like instead of using cycle and keep on my character walking how can i walk my character like 3 times or four times only instead of keep on walking using cycle method. Thank You. :)

@macitseferi1843 5 ай бұрын

Is the flexibility of the body only valid for manual animation or can I get the same result when I apply mocap?

@sparkar7961 6 ай бұрын

please can u make a short video on how to settle the last pose in animation{maya } , pleaseee

@christiancabiles8498 3 ай бұрын

I still find it odd that maya still has no built in feature to mirror keyframes or paste them flipped

@brownguyart 3 ай бұрын

Didn't understand what you did on the Neck and Head part, can someone explain?

@marvinbutler2986 2 ай бұрын

What program are you using to analyze the reference

@nlgaming 5 ай бұрын

Hi, is it normal Maya doesn't recognize mp4? it sees .mov, but not mpr4?

@ZomboidArea Ай бұрын

Why you didnt show how to deal with knee pop? Your walk have huge pop :/

@gcomplex1099 5 ай бұрын

Hi can you make a video about how to make animation more realistic

@devendradev4390 6 ай бұрын

GOOD ONE , CAN YOU PLS POSE TO POSE GOOD WORKFLOW ?

@nguyenanngvi 6 ай бұрын

Hi Mark! can you tell me how about to make the background in your scene? Thanks

@MarkMastersAnim 6 ай бұрын

I made a video showing how to setup the background awhile back. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z9aqZZiqvr6pZJs.html

@HikaruNoIkaros 5 ай бұрын

Could you give any insight to how fast an animator in the game industry is supposed to work? Is there a seconds per day quota?

@spectralstrider3147 5 ай бұрын

There are a few interviews on the internet that talk about this, a good one that MAY still hold true today is an interview called "Insight into the life of a games animator" (2015) from MCVuk

@moimizuai-ei7om 5 ай бұрын

I'm about to just drop Maya completely..I started learning with blender and I just simply dragged and dropped the reference into the viewport and it displayed. None of the reference files work, none of it displays in the viewport. I converted them to several file types and none of them work. I converted them image sequences and it won't show the options to import that. I do some digging and apperantly I need a specific codec??? This stuff should be mentioned. How can a program possibly be this convoluted??? I'm truly baffled by this. It should be so simple, in the video you easily did it. But for some reason it's impossible for me to simply import a reference video. What a motivation killer jesus christ man..

@kozakni 4 ай бұрын

Same! Came to the comments to see if anyone was having the same issues; I followed the in-video steps (View > Image Plane > Import Movie) and it imports as a thin line no matter which viewport I'm in (even in Persp view, when I tumble around it remains a useless line). I've spent more time trying to troubleshoot this than on the scene itself and it's so annoying -_- If anyone has a fix, please let us know!

@guerriermelon581 4 ай бұрын

Convert it into mov and do the exact same thing he shows in the video

@princeraghav5849 3 ай бұрын

Bro simple h goes to after effect go to composition setting add to render queue export at png sequence make sure you remove _ and replace from. Dot maya import image use image sequence then video play

@Sherif-the-Watcher 2 ай бұрын

Be grateful for dis, i paid for an animation course and it's even delivered as much as dis video has, and dis video is for FREE!

@Libran81 18 күн бұрын

Try in an orthographic view when importing reference, Maya is a pain at times but it is a great program and there is a reason why we use it in the industry today.