How To Create Walk Cycles in Blender

How To Create Walk Cycles in Blender - The Fastest Method

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Animate a walk cycle in 5 minutes! In this video, I go over how you can use Blender's mirror pose tool to very quickly create a walk cycle. We take a single contact pose and use that to create the entire walk cycle. I've always found it important to utilize the tools within a software to help you achieve the animations you want in a much faster amount of time. The mirror pose tool helps you do just that!
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:03 Mirroring the Contact Pose
3:17 Creating the Down Position
4:53 Creating the Passing Position
5:31 Creating the Up Position
6:23 Using Mirror Pose to Finish the Cycle
8:20 Outro
#animation #blender #walkcycle

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@Virus-ng1lh Жыл бұрын

I cannot tell you, how long I have been looking for a tutorial like this. I have been working on a character of mine for MONTHS now and I finally get to see her walk, I'm almost actually crying because I have put so much effort into it and I get to see my character walk. Thank you so much for this tutorial, 40/10

@unabatedlemon5926 Жыл бұрын

It is almost like being a parent to a degree.

@Dark.Animates 22 сағат бұрын

FIIINALLY BRO I've been looking for a walk cycle tutorial that i can actually understand, thank you!

@Werdna-ob2ul 5 ай бұрын

This is exactly the kind of tutorial I was hoping to find, absolutely straight forward, gives the right amount of info with little tips and tricks sprinkled throughout it to make the overall experience much easier. Absolutely love it!

@Carteeeer52 Жыл бұрын

U gotta get ur webcam out the way dawg

@lavapolice1706 3 ай бұрын

Yeah dude

@DefinitelyNotStef 9 ай бұрын

This was a great tutorial! I love how calm and slowly you walk us through the process of making a walk cycle

@fragileart 2 жыл бұрын

This was super helpful! Never thought it would be so simple! Thanks for sharing!

@Danived 10 ай бұрын

Posiblemente haya visto miles de videos y jamás nadie me ha explicado de la manera mas sencilla como vos, eternamente agradecido! NICE VIDEO BRO!

@SwiftGames_ Жыл бұрын

Thank you! This really helps someone like me who doesn’t have prior animation experience. Blender can be a little weird with keyframes, like you have to make sure you have deselected everything before inserting again, as you can accidentally overwrite previous frames, other than that, this tutorial is by far the fastest and easiest way to start getting into animation.

@user-qm6ge1db5x 8 ай бұрын

I've actually watched several videos for tutorials for a simple walking animation with rigs. I don't know but I finished them all but I wasn't still able to do it. But this one, for some reason, I was able to do it almost right away. I was able to figure it out instantly.

@kenkioqqo Жыл бұрын

Very well explained! Simple and precise.

@UNIVERSE_X_STUDIOS 9 ай бұрын

thank you so much for this video! really helped me to understand walk cycles better!

@nathankrone3363 9 күн бұрын

Dang you could've stopped at Paste Pose Flipped and I would have been impressed. This is great.

@linglang854 Жыл бұрын

fantastic :) learned to trust the blender interp and helped make some basic stuff!!!

@whitneysmiltank Жыл бұрын

What a fantastic tutorial. Thanks a lot.

@filipepereira844 9 ай бұрын

thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!

@unrealistixs 8 ай бұрын

Love your tutorials man !!!

@LarsLeonhard 2 жыл бұрын

You said it was rough and not looking great at the end. I would love to see you finish it until it was finished and you were satisfied. Please create the last part! :)

@Skitarii-w8y Ай бұрын

thank you so much this is an easy 10/10 tutorial and the best one I have seen

@jokybones Жыл бұрын

Thank you this is my first Walk Cycle.. i quit multiple tutorial and courses bc i couldn´t figure it out! Really motivates me now haha

@jorrdan. Ай бұрын

This was so helpful thank you!

@tanaypatke5863 6 ай бұрын

Helpful video, Thanks!

@kaxi3d 6 ай бұрын

thank god you put your webcam right on top of the timeline!

@Outsider-zi8ub Жыл бұрын

wow this changes everything for me

@wycoturmoil 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for this, I made an great walk cycle after just a tiny bit of tweaking.

@fkanimations4574 2 жыл бұрын

Nice to see you animating

@filiphichel5783 Жыл бұрын

Thank u! This is what i needed,

@stephaniegartmann569 8 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for this video and wow have been 1 hour trying to figure out how to import a picture ! :)

@stephaniegartmann569 8 ай бұрын

It looks so easy how you do it. Will take me another 4 hours to figure out one step.

@diluvialdrifter4332 Жыл бұрын

It's worthy to note, at 7:00 you can also copy paste poses directly in the timeline.

@ordinarynerdofficial 10 ай бұрын

when i paste my pose flipped it doesnt flip it stays the same and just pastes normally how do i fix this?

@ordinarynerdofficial 10 ай бұрын

@@darkstar3116 i think i was only doing shift + v

@FleMoo 8 ай бұрын

@@ordinarynerdofficial check if you named your bones corretly with the L for Left or R for Right prefix. It is needed for the mirror paste to work. I.e. hand.L and hand.R.

@ordinarynerdofficial 8 ай бұрын

they are@@FleMoo

@michaelperrigo Жыл бұрын

Dude, THANKS!

@partonca4916 Ай бұрын

great tutorial!

@JonathanGilmer 2 жыл бұрын

Really great tutorial, I hope to see more from you!

@alzearafat Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@isma-artculture7157 4 ай бұрын

thanks man !!!

@manuelblasi2181 2 жыл бұрын

thank for thiss

@TotalskullProductions 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip

@dallerystudios 2 жыл бұрын

thanks man

@frisky1552 10 ай бұрын

bro thank you omg 100/10

@norainacad 6 ай бұрын

youtube user mark masters i owe you my life.......i'm 100% a 2D person but had to do this for a portfolio, thank god i came across this video

@henrique637 Жыл бұрын

you're a savior

@BiswajitKumarRoyJohn 2 жыл бұрын

Very Nice Mark!!! Thanks for sharing!!! I am also a maya user character animator. Could you please make a video about setup reference footage in blender, about best layout for animation, about graph editor of blender, about creating playblast etc. I mean all of the pipeline of maya. I hope, this is not a big trouble for you to make.

@preetamafineart450 Жыл бұрын

Thankyou sir please make more videos for beginners in full details about short animation

@banish4cost 9 ай бұрын

thank you

@happy_bacon 27 күн бұрын

tysm😇

@screwdajuice 11 ай бұрын

it really helps having your webcam right on where the timeline is. thanks dude.

@henryying3258 9 ай бұрын

Thanks .

@OttrPopAnimations Жыл бұрын

you are amazing

@hookflash699 Жыл бұрын

Nice tutorial! I just wish there was a way to copy & flip multiple poses simultaneously instead of having to do them one by one.

@eligijuspranskunas3509 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video, please make more like this! you got subscribe from me ;)

@thelittleeditor07 Жыл бұрын

the video was very Good just a suggestion kindly make your backgroud transperant so we can clearly see what you have done on the first frames .

@EmvyBeats Жыл бұрын

I would love to see how you set up a rig.

@nattvandrarn1 2 жыл бұрын

i am stumped. i have looked up like 3 different tutorials now and they all pretty much say the same. have a start pose, copy it and paste it at the end and lastly paste it reversed in the middle. ez game. But for some reason my character just slightly contorts up and down the leg doesn't switch at all it's still the same leg forward even though i press A and copy reverse paste it... what am i doing wrong?

@joeyanimations20 Жыл бұрын

Same I’m stuck on that one!

@BattleJunkiee Жыл бұрын

May be you should try adding keyframes

@Blendercage Жыл бұрын

Are you making sure that everything has fresh key frames before copying and making sure the mouse is in the viewport while copy pasting the pose? Not sure if it’s the same thing Ive run across doing this.

@fightingwords3540 Жыл бұрын

@Intramotive Jones good tip I used to get try copy and past in the dope sheet. But to reverse pose you gotta be in viewport.

@Sekkizan Жыл бұрын

Might be too late but it's probably because your bone are not named properly, they have to have a suffix (L or R) so blender know what should be symmetrized on the other side.

@divorcelawyer8352 3 күн бұрын

you deserve so many more subscribers than you have

@brandonjacksoon 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!))

@DaRealViso Жыл бұрын

thanks for this. Luckily for me the non refined version of my walk cycle worked better for my monster. The way it would subtly jitter made it look creepier.

@VortexFlims Жыл бұрын

yes. i got the walk cycle down. but PLEASE make a tutorial on walking in a path now. i have had trouble for this for years and i still have my character look like their sliding on ice

@TailspinMedia 5 ай бұрын

very helpful. my only one note would be, it would've been nice to help the user set up the initial pose you already had. Luckily this is not my first tutorial so i know about some of the subtleties like dropping the hip etc but a newbie wouldn't know that. Besides that it was a very helpful video.

@pissinsnow4 7 ай бұрын

Hi I need help asap, can I animate this one the same spot, and then use the animation on a path

@meldyluova3340 9 ай бұрын

imagine doing a whole video about animation on a software where timeline is so fucking important, then putting your camera on it

@lucutes2936 5 ай бұрын

thx

@davidcripps3011 2 жыл бұрын

Are you leaving it in bezier interpolation?

@bradenjohn2671 4 ай бұрын

I love those Halo kotobukiyas

@BDR123 Жыл бұрын

Could you make a tutorial on setting up that rig?

@kwombat5306 10 ай бұрын

thank you so much for this

@mohsinshah7117 Жыл бұрын

please help me when i paste flipped the whole character flips and changes direction if anyone knows how to fix it please let me know

@EchoSeraphim 10 ай бұрын

I'm not sure why, but the pose is not pasting when I try to paste the pose on frame 12. Do I need a premade pose already? Do I need to select the other leg? I'm pressing A in pose mode like the video shows, too, but nothin'.

@fkanimations4574 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome 😊👍🏻

@cloudlove1 6 ай бұрын

I love your art, beautiful character and outfit. My walk cycle is nice in blender but when I render its very stiff. How do you interpolate keyframes or whatnot, and how to change frame rate? No idea. Can you please do a "render animation" video? I hope someone sees this.

@user-yz5bw4dm2d Жыл бұрын

Brother i have a suggestion. please keep your video on the righthand side on the outliner so that we can have clear view of the timeline. Thank you.

@cmrdgi Жыл бұрын

Super helpful video! Maybe move the facecam up a little, it's hiding the timeline :)

@hello.4693 Жыл бұрын

Hi would you recommend 24 or 60 FPS for Character Animations for Games? and why.

@Assortment54321 8 ай бұрын

Don't forget to make the naming convention of the bones L.Leg and R.Leg respectively. I almost forgot this. :P

@tommyboy3182 5 ай бұрын

WUNDABAR! Great tutorial! But what about walking backwards and strafing?

@imthebestmayne122 13 күн бұрын

Paste pose flipped changes my original pose to the flipped one for some reason. I am unsure as to why.

@user-oi8vf8bi5s 2 жыл бұрын

Sir please help for perfect lighting

@stephen285 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for your vid! is there a way to make it use the same animation but walk the opposite direction? not reverse the animation but walk forward the opposite direction?

@Wwheaton 10 ай бұрын

Rotate the root bone 180⁰

@tunnis7us Жыл бұрын

how do you actually move the character forward ?

@batman3698 Жыл бұрын

FYI, you can just control C, control shift V to mirror the pose

@shikanoinheizou9045 Ай бұрын

that was good, but there is a small problem in idk my armature, It is that the leg bones are easily paste flip but when i flip the arm bones it automatically switches to the idle T pose.

@GOODMEMESALLDAY 11 ай бұрын

i don't know if you will reply to this message but, i really wanted to know. what is that circle down her foot with the pointy arrow around, how to i get that things

@nikz000 3 ай бұрын

Awesome, Thanks a lot, though next tutorial I dont need to see your face, I want to see the interface

@learning3ds000 Жыл бұрын

Sir I put animation of a girl walking then she brought to city with the help of an addon and when I play that lady on the road of the city then she goes back to where she was and starts walking

@AbhishekSharma-fg1ho 6 ай бұрын

can you suggest me some website where i can download free rigs because i am animating in Maya and just started learning blender

@stormerbuzz352 10 ай бұрын

My face every time I correctly follow a step and it works: :O Edit: Is it possible for me to take the animation I made and then import to into another project?

@cjrinfra8890 2 жыл бұрын

wow

@S3TVproductions 10 ай бұрын

I love how the redundant head is covering half of what you're doing.

@MarkMastersAnim 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, this was one of my first videos, trying to make sure not to have it in the way of anything important in the future. Or just removing it altogether.

@S3TVproductions 10 ай бұрын

@MarkMastersAnim haha. The rest was good. There were some parts where I wasn't sure if you changed what frame you're working on. Sorry about calling your head redundant. Haha. I think intro, outro, and explaining things that don't need visuals are enough.

@MarkMastersAnim 10 ай бұрын

@@S3TVproductions Hahah no problem, I get that same complaint a lot in most of my older videos.

@kryptoid2568 8 ай бұрын

3:08 Congratulations, you made a Scott Cawthon style animation

@cemilsaintson3688 9 ай бұрын

Do you have any video about rigging? Like in this video.

@rabbidsnipes5654 9 ай бұрын

everytime I press "i" to create a keyframe, it just gives me a whole list of stuff (Available, location, rotation, scale, location and rotation, visual location, visual rotation, etc.) what am I even supposed to select?

@MrYeetus 10 ай бұрын

how do you make it so when you move your character through a scene/stage it doesn't look like its sliding

@MarkMastersAnim 10 ай бұрын

I've got a video releasing tomorrow about that.

@user-yr6yy3ve6i 7 ай бұрын

hello i was wondering how you have it so that once you set down a key frame it just auto accepts whatever you put in with me i always have to do it at the end and go through a menu of what part of the animation i want to keep Rotation, scale, etc. Thanks so much if you respond or if any other commenter can answer my question.

@MarkMastersAnim 6 ай бұрын

Hey! My latest video should walk through this process to simplify setting keyframes. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJaDpqRj3KiumGQ.html

@abubakarxebron5444 Жыл бұрын

need some help my character is flipping on an opposite direction

@fitnesslivingway2273 Жыл бұрын

bro, p,ease how can i get this model to work with in blender. i am love the model crazy. love the video. very helpful.

@Ninja-CG Жыл бұрын

Lisa rig from i-animate

@ashusashus9400 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for this tutorial! Really helped a lot. But please get your webcam out of the way of what youre doing. can be confusing when you explain something but we cant see what you are doing.

@sahilshegokar Жыл бұрын

brother how you get you firsst starting anime model can you proud me

@zetsology 15 күн бұрын

Hmmm... very nice, but that's actually a 25 frames cycle, not 24, right? Of course, makes sense to be able to put the pass pose in the middle. I believe it would be better to then start at frame 1, not 0. Not a big deal, but this might confuse beginners a bit.

@Noobplays6969 Жыл бұрын

Can someone help me my pose does not change as I flip it after copying it, it flips but then it does not flip back over if i go back to the frames. basically after I flip it, it does not change back over and takes a fixed position.

@matiasferreira4640 Жыл бұрын

same exact thing is happening to me rn, did you find a way to make it work?

@Noobplays6969 Жыл бұрын

@@matiasferreira4640 not yet

@Noobplays6969 Жыл бұрын

@@matiasferreira4640 but still trying

@matiasferreira4640 Жыл бұрын

@@Noobplays6969 i actually got it haha When making the first keyframe press “i” (if ur using blender keys) and save it as location rotation and scale. i did that and it started working

@Noobplays6969 Жыл бұрын

@@matiasferreira4640 ohh yeah I forgot to tell you that but I did get the solution location, rotation and scale is not mandatory there has to be a keyframe there