How To Create Walk Cycles in Blender - The Fastest Method

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Animate a walk cycle in 5 minutes! In this video, I go over how you can use Blender's mirror pose tool to very quickly create a walk cycle. We take a single contact pose and use that to create the entire walk cycle. I've always found it important to utilize the tools within a software to help you achieve the animations you want in a much faster amount of time. The mirror pose tool helps you do just that!
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:03 Mirroring the Contact Pose
3:17 Creating the Down Position
4:53 Creating the Passing Position
5:31 Creating the Up Position
6:23 Using Mirror Pose to Finish the Cycle
8:20 Outro
#animation #blender #walkcycle

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  • @Virus-ng1lh
    @Virus-ng1lh Жыл бұрын

    I cannot tell you, how long I have been looking for a tutorial like this. I have been working on a character of mine for MONTHS now and I finally get to see her walk, I'm almost actually crying because I have put so much effort into it and I get to see my character walk. Thank you so much for this tutorial, 40/10

  • @unabatedlemon5926

    @unabatedlemon5926

    Жыл бұрын

    It is almost like being a parent to a degree.

  • @Werdna-ob2ul
    @Werdna-ob2ul5 ай бұрын

    This is exactly the kind of tutorial I was hoping to find, absolutely straight forward, gives the right amount of info with little tips and tricks sprinkled throughout it to make the overall experience much easier. Absolutely love it!

  • @Carteeeer52
    @Carteeeer52 Жыл бұрын

    U gotta get ur webcam out the way dawg

  • @lavapolice1706

    @lavapolice1706

    3 ай бұрын

    Yeah dude

  • @Danived
    @Danived10 ай бұрын

    Posiblemente haya visto miles de videos y jamás nadie me ha explicado de la manera mas sencilla como vos, eternamente agradecido! NICE VIDEO BRO!

  • @fragileart
    @fragileart2 жыл бұрын

    This was super helpful! Never thought it would be so simple! Thanks for sharing!

  • @DefinitelyNotStef
    @DefinitelyNotStef8 ай бұрын

    This was a great tutorial! I love how calm and slowly you walk us through the process of making a walk cycle

  • @SwiftGames_
    @SwiftGames_ Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! This really helps someone like me who doesn’t have prior animation experience. Blender can be a little weird with keyframes, like you have to make sure you have deselected everything before inserting again, as you can accidentally overwrite previous frames, other than that, this tutorial is by far the fastest and easiest way to start getting into animation.

  • @user-qm6ge1db5x
    @user-qm6ge1db5x8 ай бұрын

    I've actually watched several videos for tutorials for a simple walking animation with rigs. I don't know but I finished them all but I wasn't still able to do it. But this one, for some reason, I was able to do it almost right away. I was able to figure it out instantly.

  • @LarsLeonhard
    @LarsLeonhard2 жыл бұрын

    You said it was rough and not looking great at the end. I would love to see you finish it until it was finished and you were satisfied. Please create the last part! :)

  • @kenkioqqo
    @kenkioqqo Жыл бұрын

    Very well explained! Simple and precise.

  • @jokybones
    @jokybones Жыл бұрын

    Thank you this is my first Walk Cycle.. i quit multiple tutorial and courses bc i couldn´t figure it out! Really motivates me now haha

  • @UNIVERSE_X_STUDIOS
    @UNIVERSE_X_STUDIOS8 ай бұрын

    thank you so much for this video! really helped me to understand walk cycles better!

  • @filipepereira844
    @filipepereira8449 ай бұрын

    thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!

  • @linglang854
    @linglang854 Жыл бұрын

    fantastic :) learned to trust the blender interp and helped make some basic stuff!!!

  • @whitneysmiltank
    @whitneysmiltank Жыл бұрын

    What a fantastic tutorial. Thanks a lot.

  • @wycoturmoil
    @wycoturmoil5 ай бұрын

    Thanks for this, I made an great walk cycle after just a tiny bit of tweaking.

  • @unrealistixs
    @unrealistixs8 ай бұрын

    Love your tutorials man !!!

  • @fkanimations4574
    @fkanimations45742 жыл бұрын

    Nice to see you animating

  • @Outsider-zi8ub
    @Outsider-zi8ub Жыл бұрын

    wow this changes everything for me

  • @stephaniegartmann569
    @stephaniegartmann5698 ай бұрын

    It looks so easy how you do it. Will take me another 4 hours to figure out one step.

  • @Skitarii-w8y
    @Skitarii-w8y29 күн бұрын

    thank you so much this is an easy 10/10 tutorial and the best one I have seen

  • @tanaypatke5863
    @tanaypatke58635 ай бұрын

    Helpful video, Thanks!

  • @jorrdan.
    @jorrdan.Ай бұрын

    This was so helpful thank you!

  • @filiphichel5783
    @filiphichel5783 Жыл бұрын

    Thank u! This is what i needed,

  • @partonca4916
    @partonca4916Ай бұрын

    great tutorial!

  • @michaelperrigo
    @michaelperrigo Жыл бұрын

    Dude, THANKS!

  • @diluvialdrifter4332
    @diluvialdrifter4332 Жыл бұрын

    It's worthy to note, at 7:00 you can also copy paste poses directly in the timeline.

  • @ordinarynerdofficial

    @ordinarynerdofficial

    9 ай бұрын

    when i paste my pose flipped it doesnt flip it stays the same and just pastes normally how do i fix this?

  • @ordinarynerdofficial

    @ordinarynerdofficial

    9 ай бұрын

    @@darkstar3116 i think i was only doing shift + v

  • @FleMoo

    @FleMoo

    8 ай бұрын

    @@ordinarynerdofficial check if you named your bones corretly with the L for Left or R for Right prefix. It is needed for the mirror paste to work. I.e. hand.L and hand.R.

  • @ordinarynerdofficial

    @ordinarynerdofficial

    8 ай бұрын

    they are@@FleMoo

  • @stephaniegartmann569
    @stephaniegartmann5698 ай бұрын

    Hello and thanks for this video and wow have been 1 hour trying to figure out how to import a picture ! :)

  • @alzearafat
    @alzearafat Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!!

  • @manuelblasi2181
    @manuelblasi2181 Жыл бұрын

    thank for thiss

  • @henrique637
    @henrique637 Жыл бұрын

    you're a savior

  • @kaxi3d
    @kaxi3d5 ай бұрын

    thank god you put your webcam right on top of the timeline!

  • @dallerystudios
    @dallerystudios2 жыл бұрын

    thanks man

  • @isma-artculture7157
    @isma-artculture71573 ай бұрын

    thanks man !!!

  • @TotalskullProductions
    @TotalskullProductions11 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the tip

  • @frisky1552
    @frisky155210 ай бұрын

    bro thank you omg 100/10

  • @norainacad
    @norainacad5 ай бұрын

    youtube user mark masters i owe you my life.......i'm 100% a 2D person but had to do this for a portfolio, thank god i came across this video

  • @banish4cost
    @banish4cost8 ай бұрын

    thank you

  • @happy_bacon
    @happy_bacon13 күн бұрын

    tysm😇

  • @BiswajitKumarRoyJohn
    @BiswajitKumarRoyJohn2 жыл бұрын

    Very Nice Mark!!! Thanks for sharing!!! I am also a maya user character animator. Could you please make a video about setup reference footage in blender, about best layout for animation, about graph editor of blender, about creating playblast etc. I mean all of the pipeline of maya. I hope, this is not a big trouble for you to make.

  • @JonathanGilmer
    @JonathanGilmer2 жыл бұрын

    Really great tutorial, I hope to see more from you!

  • @preetamafineart450
    @preetamafineart450 Жыл бұрын

    Thankyou sir please make more videos for beginners in full details about short animation

  • @henryying3258
    @henryying32588 ай бұрын

    Thanks .

  • @meldyluova3340
    @meldyluova33408 ай бұрын

    imagine doing a whole video about animation on a software where timeline is so fucking important, then putting your camera on it

  • @lucutes2936
    @lucutes29364 ай бұрын

    thx

  • @thelittleeditor07
    @thelittleeditor07 Жыл бұрын

    the video was very Good just a suggestion kindly make your backgroud transperant so we can clearly see what you have done on the first frames .

  • @OttrPopAnimations
    @OttrPopAnimations Жыл бұрын

    you are amazing

  • @BDR123
    @BDR123 Жыл бұрын

    Could you make a tutorial on setting up that rig?

  • @hookflash699
    @hookflash699 Жыл бұрын

    Nice tutorial! I just wish there was a way to copy & flip multiple poses simultaneously instead of having to do them one by one.

  • @TailspinMedia
    @TailspinMedia5 ай бұрын

    very helpful. my only one note would be, it would've been nice to help the user set up the initial pose you already had. Luckily this is not my first tutorial so i know about some of the subtleties like dropping the hip etc but a newbie wouldn't know that. Besides that it was a very helpful video.

  • @EmvyBeats
    @EmvyBeats Жыл бұрын

    I would love to see how you set up a rig.

  • @davidcripps3011
    @davidcripps30112 жыл бұрын

    Are you leaving it in bezier interpolation?

  • @DaRealViso
    @DaRealViso Жыл бұрын

    thanks for this. Luckily for me the non refined version of my walk cycle worked better for my monster. The way it would subtly jitter made it look creepier.

  • @bradenjohn2671
    @bradenjohn26714 ай бұрын

    I love those Halo kotobukiyas

  • @eligijuspranskunas3509
    @eligijuspranskunas35092 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video, please make more like this! you got subscribe from me ;)

  • @brandonjacksoon
    @brandonjacksoon2 жыл бұрын

    Awesome! Thank you!))

  • @VortexFlims
    @VortexFlims Жыл бұрын

    yes. i got the walk cycle down. but PLEASE make a tutorial on walking in a path now. i have had trouble for this for years and i still have my character look like their sliding on ice

  • @tommyboy3182
    @tommyboy31825 ай бұрын

    WUNDABAR! Great tutorial! But what about walking backwards and strafing?

  • @cjrinfra8890
    @cjrinfra88902 жыл бұрын

    wow

  • @kryptoid2568
    @kryptoid25687 ай бұрын

    3:08 Congratulations, you made a Scott Cawthon style animation

  • @cloudlove1
    @cloudlove15 ай бұрын

    I love your art, beautiful character and outfit. My walk cycle is nice in blender but when I render its very stiff. How do you interpolate keyframes or whatnot, and how to change frame rate? No idea. Can you please do a "render animation" video? I hope someone sees this.

  • @kwombat5306
    @kwombat53069 ай бұрын

    thank you so much for this

  • @screwdajuice
    @screwdajuice11 ай бұрын

    it really helps having your webcam right on where the timeline is. thanks dude.

  • @fkanimations4574
    @fkanimations45742 жыл бұрын

    Awesome 😊👍🏻

  • @pissinsnow4
    @pissinsnow46 ай бұрын

    Hi I need help asap, can I animate this one the same spot, and then use the animation on a path

  • @nikz000
    @nikz0002 ай бұрын

    Awesome, Thanks a lot, though next tutorial I dont need to see your face, I want to see the interface

  • @cmrdgi
    @cmrdgi Жыл бұрын

    Super helpful video! Maybe move the facecam up a little, it's hiding the timeline :)

  • @stormerbuzz352
    @stormerbuzz3529 ай бұрын

    My face every time I correctly follow a step and it works: :O Edit: Is it possible for me to take the animation I made and then import to into another project?

  • @S3TVproductions
    @S3TVproductions9 ай бұрын

    I love how the redundant head is covering half of what you're doing.

  • @MarkMastersAnim

    @MarkMastersAnim

    9 ай бұрын

    Yeah, this was one of my first videos, trying to make sure not to have it in the way of anything important in the future. Or just removing it altogether.

  • @S3TVproductions

    @S3TVproductions

    9 ай бұрын

    @MarkMastersAnim haha. The rest was good. There were some parts where I wasn't sure if you changed what frame you're working on. Sorry about calling your head redundant. Haha. I think intro, outro, and explaining things that don't need visuals are enough.

  • @MarkMastersAnim

    @MarkMastersAnim

    9 ай бұрын

    @@S3TVproductions Hahah no problem, I get that same complaint a lot in most of my older videos.

  • @user-yz5bw4dm2d
    @user-yz5bw4dm2d11 ай бұрын

    Brother i have a suggestion. please keep your video on the righthand side on the outliner so that we can have clear view of the timeline. Thank you.

  • @stephen285
    @stephen28510 ай бұрын

    Thanks for your vid! is there a way to make it use the same animation but walk the opposite direction? not reverse the animation but walk forward the opposite direction?

  • @Wwheaton

    @Wwheaton

    9 ай бұрын

    Rotate the root bone 180⁰

  • @batman3698
    @batman3698 Жыл бұрын

    FYI, you can just control C, control shift V to mirror the pose

  • @hello.4693
    @hello.4693 Жыл бұрын

    Hi would you recommend 24 or 60 FPS for Character Animations for Games? and why.

  • @shikanoinheizou9045
    @shikanoinheizou904521 күн бұрын

    that was good, but there is a small problem in idk my armature, It is that the leg bones are easily paste flip but when i flip the arm bones it automatically switches to the idle T pose.

  • @user-oi8vf8bi5s
    @user-oi8vf8bi5s2 жыл бұрын

    Sir please help for perfect lighting

  • @nattvandrarn1
    @nattvandrarn12 жыл бұрын

    i am stumped. i have looked up like 3 different tutorials now and they all pretty much say the same. have a start pose, copy it and paste it at the end and lastly paste it reversed in the middle. ez game. But for some reason my character just slightly contorts up and down the leg doesn't switch at all it's still the same leg forward even though i press A and copy reverse paste it... what am i doing wrong?

  • @joeyanimations20

    @joeyanimations20

    Жыл бұрын

    Same I’m stuck on that one!

  • @BattleJunkiee

    @BattleJunkiee

    Жыл бұрын

    May be you should try adding keyframes

  • @Blendercage

    @Blendercage

    Жыл бұрын

    Are you making sure that everything has fresh key frames before copying and making sure the mouse is in the viewport while copy pasting the pose? Not sure if it’s the same thing Ive run across doing this.

  • @fightingwords3540

    @fightingwords3540

    Жыл бұрын

    @Intramotive Jones good tip I used to get try copy and past in the dope sheet. But to reverse pose you gotta be in viewport.

  • @Sekkizan

    @Sekkizan

    Жыл бұрын

    Might be too late but it's probably because your bone are not named properly, they have to have a suffix (L or R) so blender know what should be symmetrized on the other side.

  • @Assortment54321
    @Assortment543218 ай бұрын

    Don't forget to make the naming convention of the bones L.Leg and R.Leg respectively. I almost forgot this. :P

  • @tunnis7us
    @tunnis7us Жыл бұрын

    how do you actually move the character forward ?

  • @EchoSeraphim
    @EchoSeraphim10 ай бұрын

    I'm not sure why, but the pose is not pasting when I try to paste the pose on frame 12. Do I need a premade pose already? Do I need to select the other leg? I'm pressing A in pose mode like the video shows, too, but nothin'.

  • @AbhishekSharma-fg1ho
    @AbhishekSharma-fg1ho6 ай бұрын

    can you suggest me some website where i can download free rigs because i am animating in Maya and just started learning blender

  • @cemilsaintson3688
    @cemilsaintson36888 ай бұрын

    Do you have any video about rigging? Like in this video.

  • @psy169
    @psy169 Жыл бұрын

  • @zetsology
    @zetsologyКүн бұрын

    Hmmm... very nice, but that's actually a 25 frames cycle, not 24, right? Of course, makes sense to be able to put the pass pose in the middle. I believe it would be better to then start at frame 1, not 0. Not a big deal, but this might confuse beginners a bit.

  • @fsalad
    @fsalad2 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @mohsinshah7117
    @mohsinshah7117 Жыл бұрын

    please help me when i paste flipped the whole character flips and changes direction if anyone knows how to fix it please let me know

  • @user-yr6yy3ve6i
    @user-yr6yy3ve6i6 ай бұрын

    hello i was wondering how you have it so that once you set down a key frame it just auto accepts whatever you put in with me i always have to do it at the end and go through a menu of what part of the animation i want to keep Rotation, scale, etc. Thanks so much if you respond or if any other commenter can answer my question.

  • @MarkMastersAnim

    @MarkMastersAnim

    6 ай бұрын

    Hey! My latest video should walk through this process to simplify setting keyframes. kzread.info/dash/bejne/aGSH1aNrp6WwmJM.html

  • @fitnesslivingway2273
    @fitnesslivingway2273 Жыл бұрын

    bro, p,ease how can i get this model to work with in blender. i am love the model crazy. love the video. very helpful.

  • @Ninja-CG

    @Ninja-CG

    Жыл бұрын

    Lisa rig from i-animate

  • @AqilDaiyan
    @AqilDaiyan Жыл бұрын

    How do you stop a walk cycle?

  • @GOODMEMESALLDAY
    @GOODMEMESALLDAY10 ай бұрын

    i don't know if you will reply to this message but, i really wanted to know. what is that circle down her foot with the pointy arrow around, how to i get that things

  • @abubakarxebron5444
    @abubakarxebron5444 Жыл бұрын

    need some help my character is flipping on an opposite direction

  • @MikeLovesVideoGames
    @MikeLovesVideoGames11 ай бұрын

    3:00 is the main part . It is when you get the idea

  • @rabbidsnipes5654
    @rabbidsnipes56548 ай бұрын

    everytime I press "i" to create a keyframe, it just gives me a whole list of stuff (Available, location, rotation, scale, location and rotation, visual location, visual rotation, etc.) what am I even supposed to select?

  • @ashusashus9400
    @ashusashus9400Ай бұрын

    Thank you for this tutorial! Really helped a lot. But please get your webcam out of the way of what youre doing. can be confusing when you explain something but we cant see what you are doing.

  • @MrYeetus
    @MrYeetus10 ай бұрын

    how do you make it so when you move your character through a scene/stage it doesn't look like its sliding

  • @MarkMastersAnim

    @MarkMastersAnim

    10 ай бұрын

    I've got a video releasing tomorrow about that.

  • @learning3ds000
    @learning3ds000 Жыл бұрын

    Sir I put animation of a girl walking then she brought to city with the help of an addon and when I play that lady on the road of the city then she goes back to where she was and starts walking

  • @raelroque5595
    @raelroque5595 Жыл бұрын

    if could remove you face of front of the video

  • @axeldaelmans7215
    @axeldaelmans72155 ай бұрын

    when i click paste pose flipped, my character just bends furtrher, it doesnt flip the pose...

  • @haruka3203
    @haruka3203Ай бұрын

    2:36 Wait, Maya, the industry standard software for animation, doesn't have animation flipping built in?

  • @Noobplays6969
    @Noobplays6969 Жыл бұрын

    Can someone help me my pose does not change as I flip it after copying it, it flips but then it does not flip back over if i go back to the frames. basically after I flip it, it does not change back over and takes a fixed position.

  • @matiasferreira4640

    @matiasferreira4640

    Жыл бұрын

    same exact thing is happening to me rn, did you find a way to make it work?

  • @Noobplays6969

    @Noobplays6969

    Жыл бұрын

    @@matiasferreira4640 not yet

  • @Noobplays6969

    @Noobplays6969

    Жыл бұрын

    @@matiasferreira4640 but still trying

  • @matiasferreira4640

    @matiasferreira4640

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Noobplays6969 i actually got it haha When making the first keyframe press “i” (if ur using blender keys) and save it as location rotation and scale. i did that and it started working

  • @Noobplays6969

    @Noobplays6969

    Жыл бұрын

    @@matiasferreira4640 ohh yeah I forgot to tell you that but I did get the solution location, rotation and scale is not mandatory there has to be a keyframe there

  • @Happykiddo247
    @Happykiddo2472 ай бұрын

    How to create that character?

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