From the course: Character Animation: Locomotion
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Starting a walk
We've talked a lot about walking, but we really haven't shown you how to start and stop a walk. Now, there are many times in animation where you go from a standing pose into a walk. So let's show you the basics of how to do the weight balance and transfer that allows a character to do that. So I'm going to go ahead and just play the walk as we have it. So as you can see, she takes a step and starts walking. So let's go ahead and break this down a little bit further. I'm going to go ahead and scrub this a little bit here, and you can see that as she starts, we start to get a weight transfer, so she's starting to put her weight onto one foot. In fact, we could probably zoom in a little bit here and give you a closer look at this. So what happens is her weight starts to go down towards this foot here. And when the weight is firmly on that foot, she pushes up and shifts her weight to take that next step. So you can see, weight goes down. This is basically an anticipation, and then she…
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