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Understanding walk and run cycles

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Understanding walk and run cycles

A walk cycle consists of four poses, the contact, recoil, passing, and high-point which you can see here. This entire sequence will take about one second on the screen. It's important, before you begin, to understand the principle of counterpose. And that's the fact that when one part of the body moves in one direction, the other moves in the other to compensate. So, the right foot, for example, is forward while the right arm is back and vice versa. And you can see that in this illustration. And if you look at the front view, you can see also that when the hips are tilted in one direction, the shoulders are tilted in the other, and rotated differently also. So, we'll keep that in mind, even though we're going to be animating this scene in the profile view. To animate this, I'm going to be using the Bones tool in Flash. Now, please bear in mind that Flash CC doesn't contain the Bones tool. So you'll need to use a slightly older version if you want to follow along in Flash. If you're…

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