From the course: 2D Animation: Character & Attitude Walk Cycles
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Creating the attitude contact pose
From the course: 2D Animation: Character & Attitude Walk Cycles
Creating the attitude contact pose
- [Voiceover] In the previous movie, I showed you how to get flexibility in the walk by modifying the passing position. Now I'm going to show you how to do an attitude walk, a walk with character, personality, ya know, some kind of activity inside the character's head and get beyond the basic, ya know, standard cookie cutter walk cycles that we've been looking at so far. We're still going to play with the passing pose, but now the contact will take over and how you design the contact pose, that's going to determine the emotional tone of the rest of the walk and here, we have five examples. The stomp, very angry. The classic sneak. The sad walk, kind of a droopy thing. Kind of a goofy, funky, just I was messing around, just having a bit of fun with that one. On the fifth side, a 3D walk and I wanted to do something with an absolutely loony back and forth walk. Let me show you what these guys look like in animation. So, as you can see, there's a lot going on here and if you've never…
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