How to Animate a Walk Cycle

Learn how to create a basic walk cycle animation using Adobe Animate in this comprehensive 23-minute tutorial. Master the key poses of a walk cycle as perfected by Richard Williams, starting from sketching to finalizing the animation. Explore the five essential poses: contact, passing position, down, and up. Discover techniques for arranging key poses, tidying up rough sketches, and adding secondary animations for elements like hats, bags, and clothing. Follow along as the instructor demonstrates how to add follow-through, overlap, and finalize the animation with coloring. By the end of this tutorial, you'll have the skills to create a polished walk cycle animation from scratch.