Animating a walk cycle in Motion Builder

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WIP tutorial by Domarius. Need to move over mentions for "movement cycles" from my tips page into here, cause they will be redundant then.

Just some personal notes for now.

  • Make contact step at frame 0, hips go down
  • Make a passing step at frame 10, hips go up
  • Reverse contact step at frame 20 by copying keyframes to other limbs
  • Reverse passing step at frame 30 by copying keyframes to other limbs
  • Finalise loop by copying keyframes from 0 to 40
  • Make a new animation layer called Hips & Shoulders rotation, add the vertical torsion in the hips and shoulders on this layer (seperate from the hips up & down keyframes)

TODO:

  • need to get the actual forward movement happening.
  • Smooth out the loop by editing the animation curves for all the keyframes on 0 and 40