From the course: 2D Animation: Character & Attitude Walk Cycles
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Varying the passing pose for flexibility
From the course: 2D Animation: Character & Attitude Walk Cycles
Varying the passing pose for flexibility
- [Voiceover] So what I'm going to show you now in this movie is a series of variations on our contact walk cycle and how we can vary this walk quite significantly without altering the basic architecture of the step sequence. So, each of these walks, what you're going to see will involve no changes to the foot position. So, this is obviously one of the hardest things to do, is to get your feet right, so it's nice to be able to do if your director says "can you give me 10 versions of this walk," the last thing you want to do is to re-do all these feet. So, this is a nice way to do simple variations on a walk cycle by modifying the passing position. And so here, what I've done is try to work the walk into a little bit of a strut. And I've taken the passing position, so what you see in the gray are the contacts and in the red are the passing positions. All I did, was nothing spectacular, I just tilted the body back, move the arm with it, and let's have a look at how this appears when we…
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