Join Owen Lowery for an in-depth discussion in this video Animating a walk cycle, part of After Effects Duik: Rigging & Animation Tools.
- [Instructor] I'm in 07 03, Animating a Walk Cycle.…So I've got my blue Warble character rigged up…and ready to animate in its own walk cycle.…I've left the previous composition open…with all of my reference images for…the different walk cycle poses,…just in case I need to go back and forth to look at them.…All right, back in 03 Walk Cycle.…The first thing I'm gonna do is make a reference layer…out of a shape layer, so I have some reference lines…for the head line, and the ground and a few others.…So let's go up to Layer, New, and make a new Shape Layer.…
I'm going to rename this Reference, all right.…I'm gonna go over to my Pen Tool…so I can create some straight lines.…I wanna make sure my Fill is set so there's none, click OK.…Stroke is red, that's pretty good, and I'm gonna make…this about 6 pixels wide, and I'll just go ahead…and Command + Plus to zoom in a little bit.…All right, with my Reference layer selected,…I'm gonna go ahead and find where…the head line would be, and I'll hold down Shift,…and I'll click to make a straight line.…
Author
Owen Lowery
Released
9/30/2016- Inverse kinematics
- Character design and rigging
- Automation tools for rigging: Autorig
- IK rigging with puppet pins and bones
- Rigging with Rotation Morph and other rigging tools
- Animating a walk cycle
- Automation tools for animation
- Animation and interpolation tools
- Camera tools
Skill Level Advanced
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 33s
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Exercise files2m 13s
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1. Getting Started with Duik
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Getting started1m 6s
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2. Inverse Kinematics (IK) and Rigging Menu
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Introduction to IK rigging6m 13s
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3. Planning Character Design for Rigging
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Character design examples4m 50s
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4. Using Autorig
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Autorig interface3m 53s
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Assigning body parts6m 52s
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5. IK Rigging with Puppet Pins and Bones
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6. Additional Rigging Tools
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IK goal1m 55s
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Bezier IK5m 6s
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Rotation Morph7m 56s
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Zero object4m 45s
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List3m 36s
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Measure1m 38s
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Lock property3m 3s
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Rename6m 55s
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Replace5m 45s
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7. Mini Project: Animating Walk Cycle
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Walk cycle poses2m 31s
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Animating a walk cycle14m 36s
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Looping a walk cycle5m 59s
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8. Automation Tools
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Automation menu overview3m 50s
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Wiggle5m 41s
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Swing3m 40s
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Spring5m 45s
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Blink3m 18s
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Orient to path2m 45s
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Wheel3m 59s
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Lens4m 50s
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Move away2m 21s
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Distance link5m 37s
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Exposure8m 54s
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Randomize6m 21s
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Time remap3m 53s
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9. Animation Challenge: Automation on Character Rig
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10. Animation and Interpolation Tools
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Animation menu overview3m 31s
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Keyframe type buttons5m 47s
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Influence and speed controls7m 16s
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Morpher tool6m 51s
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Controllers4m 55s
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Import rig in comp6m 12s
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11. Mini Project: Cel Animation with Duik
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Animating on multiple cels6m 36s
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Looping cel animation4m 10s
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12. Camera Tools
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Control Cam5m 18s
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Scale Z-Link3m 33s
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Conclusion
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Next steps59s
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