Animating a run: the passing pose

Let's go ahead and start animating our run.…Now before we get started, we do need to know how long the run will be--…in other words, how many frames for each step.…In this case, we're going to do about a medium-paced run, which is a total of 16…frames for the cycle, or 8 frames per step.…Now as we animate this, we're going to start with the lower part of the body,…just like we did in the walk.…We're going to start with the feet and the hips and get those all working together.…

And then in a second pass, we're going to do the upper body.…So I have my timeline set for a total of 16 frames.…We're going to go from frame 1 to 17, and let's go ahead and get our first pose blocked out.…In a run, I usually find that the passing position is actually a better place to…start than the extended position, because the passing position actually is a…slightly more stable pose.…So let's go ahead and get started on that pose.…

I'm going to view my character from the side here, and I'm just going to go ahead…and start by making sure I have Auto Key turned on, and I'm usually working in…