Making a Walk Cycle in Adobe Animate!

[Music] hey welcome to BAM animation the show where we redraw the art that you guys send us I'm your minty-fresh background designer Brett and all and I'm your kitty pretty character designer Maximus Posen and together we're both professional designers at real Animation Studios in Burbank California now let's redraw some art [Music] today I'm BAM we're going to jump into some animation and show you how we made this walk cycle this is gonna be a great video if you want to learn how animation works or if you want to start learning how to animate you'll need a tablet and we recommend Adobe's new rebranded animation software Adobe animate today we got a dope-ass sick-ass drawn from Sameer since brent is gonna be doing most of the animation legwork on this ahh BAM die redraw my art at gmail.com I'm gonna use a style from one of Brent's short films linked below those circles are pretty clean bro how do you do that it's so easy to everybody you should know how to make a perfect circle in Photoshop create a new layer and select the ellipse tool set your lips to shape code set your fill to no fill and set your line however thick you want it now pull out an ellipse now try and resize it and you'll notice that the line retains the same width when you like the size right click the layer and select rasterize [Applause] [Music] all done whoa dude this is awesome so how are you gonna animate him now to do this right we need to understand how a walk cycle works we're going to look at Richard Williams breakdown of a walk cycle these are the key poses that make of a person walking we're not going to use this exactly but it's essentially a blueprint of the main drawings that we will need you might think that's a lot of drawings but only two are really important the contact pose and the passing pose the contact pose is where the front foot hits the ground the passing pose is when the legs are passing each other I'm going to trace your drawing and start adjusting things I'll start by just drawing the contact pose of the legs I'm gonna do these on their own layers so that way I can focus on just the movement of the legs [Music] okay I found the speed I won it looks like it's gonna be about 20 frames long and repeating and actually I skipped every other frame so it's only ten drawings that's called animating on twos the drawing is held for two frames so now we're gonna take his body and out a little bounce he's gonna go up when he's about to step and down after he makes contact with the ground you're not gonna draw every body position instead Brent is going to make the body into a symbol and move the symbol up and down we also need to get his arms swinging they're going to speed up mid swing and slow down at both piece when the arms are changing directions that's called adjusting the spacing it gives the movement more personality drawing us close together equals slow and drawing far apart equal fast for some finishing touches let's offset the motion a bit so that his head bounces on top of his body it's pretty subtle but it adds a line for the fire we're gonna make a looping animation of ten drawings and then put all of those frames inside a symbol and then we'll have the symbol move up and down slightly well here it is dude I'll clean the color oh my god sick dude look at the gum balls moving in his head dude I'm really happy with the way this turned out [Music] walk cycles are where the first things you learn animation and they can be a challenge even for the most experienced - animator you should show your walk cycle to your peers and see what they think yeah I was gonna say like I thought your walk cycle could probably use a little bit more like a dynamic breakdown and in-betweens [Music] you [Music] well we really have a blast drawing with you guys right but before you go we have a few things we were recently on an episode of the animation success stories podcast yeah and on the episode we answer lots of questions about our art our life our school and you get a real in-depth look about us as an artist check out the link below going to school like arts in our calories would be is that once you're all out you're all pushed off the cliff do you want to see your art featured in an episode send an email to BAM dot redraw my art at gmail.com we'll make an episode all about you that's right BAM done redraw my art at gmail.com so share these videos with your art friends and get them to send in their art as well so get us some views guys and get us some art we're a growing channel like a plan water us with their views and and nourish our soil with your art okay okay I was a good take man this coffee sucks friend who wrote this who wrote this [Music] so hard

Channel: BaM Animation

Views: 1,211,689

Keywords: walk cycle, walkcycle, drawing, animation, art tutorial, how to animate, adobe animate, animate, photoshop, cartoon drawing, cartoon, drawing tutorial, art timelapse, how to photoshop, character design, youtube artist, artist, how animation works, flash, flash animation, adobe flash, rick and morty, animation tips, circle photoshop, perfect circle, circle, brent noll, max pauson

Id: k25G83FqiEI

Length: 6min 8sec (368 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 14 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/AutomatedApathy]

Yea these guys work/ worked on Rick and Morty.. it's a pretty great channel. Tho I haven't had an update notification in a while.

[u/Flavorgsc]

the intro is corny as fuck

[u/omgwtflols]

Good find!

[u/Kylezar]

Sick!

[u/laytonbutt]

4:35 is me when I show people my work :I

[u/masked_fragments]

Thanks that was great! I’m trying to get back in to animating after a long hiatus (equally long story) and am more used to paper and pencil, so getting used to the digital programs has been a hold up. (Though I did have a Flash class way back in the day so I’m not totally in the dark)

[u/anitoon]

I lost count to the amount of times they say 'dude' but this was a good video nonetheless.

[u/bingleheimer53]

Interesting. I also found these guys yesterday and I use the same font for my animation channel! Cool beans. Cool channel.

[u/nazgool]

Pro tip: If you just do the design in Fla...Animate, you only need to clean up the character once!

Everyone should own a copy of Richard Williams' "The Animator's Survival Kit".