Noob-friendly walk cycle

[vivekchakraverty]

Is there any decent walk cycle that you would recommend for people new to the world of animation and Moho. I tried the Preston-Blair model but cant seem to get the proportions right

in terms of body part location!

[MrMiracle77]

I like a simple contact/pass/contact/pass cycle. Contact keyframes are heel/toe. Pass keyframes are one foot flat, the other foot pointed slightly aft while off the ground.

When I do this cycle, I'll do the contact keyframes first, which kind of looks like a shuffle. After than, I'll do the 'pass' keyframes in-between and make small corrections. I like to add a little upward movement of the while body on the 'pass' frames, since one of the legs will be at full-extension beneath the body at that point. It's a small detail that really sells the cycle.

Arm movements for a basic walk cycle should mostly be at the shoulder, with the elbows consistently at a slight, natural bend.

If you practice your walk cycles on a moving background, you don't have to constantly match the foot's contact point with the ground.

Consider enabling 'auto-freeze keys' to help synchronize the arms and legs. This will key the entire bone structure when you manipulate it.

[vivekchakraverty]

can you share an illustration of the walk cycle you are talking about? being a newbie, much technical details you shared sounds French to me(no offense meant for French).

Thanks in advance!

[vivekchakraverty]

Sorry, if i asked for too much, if you can even point me towards google images that resemble the walk cycle you were talking about, that too will help a lot!

[Daxel]

Maybe a video could help you more if you are a begginer. There are plenty of youtube videos teaching walk cycles specifically in Moho. Just searching walk cycle moho:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... cycle+moho

[vivekchakraverty]

I do understand the process behind a walk cycle but just need help in figuring out the touch and pass positions for characters larger than the popular Preston Blair illustration. is there any particular illustration you know that can potentially help me!

[Daxel]

I do understand the process behind a walk cycle but just need help in figuring out the touch and pass positions for characters larger than the popular Preston Blair illustration. is there any particular illustration you know that can potentially help me!

I'm sure the Preston Blair walk cycles work for larger characters too. Here you have the first example I saw on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVSTH7OB6s4

And looking at your video I see you are doing a few things wrong in the process, like your character body not advancing for a moment (probably some mistake with the keyframes) or the feet dragging through the floor, so I totally recomend you to specifically watch Moho walk cycles tutorials that will teach you how to use target bones to not drag the feet through the floor and many more useful things.

[slowtiger]

I'd recommend the Richard Williams walk cycle:



If you google "Richard Williams walk cycle" you'll end up with lots of variations all lifted from his book.

To translate this into Moho: first you key the contact and pass positions for 3 steps (last one is a copy of first). You can create the up and down body movement with translating the body bone - that's what I do first, before creating any leg position. The first frame after contact is the one I place the foot on ground. Some one or two frames before contact is where I adjust the leg in the air: it should overshoot the contact position a bit, and maybe the knee rises a bit. This basically is all I do: 6 keys for each leg, then cycle the whole thing.

[vivekchakraverty]

Thanks a lot!

[vivekchakraverty]

I personally found this reference image to be particularly simple to implement in the capacity of a beginner!

https://imgur.com/VI7e4zO

[vivekchakraverty]

Thanks to everyone for the help!

[Hamedss]

To reach your goal you need pass these simple process:

1- first contact pose
2-second contact pose( copy first pose and shift leg and in opposite directions, you can use onion skin to place character in correct place( use layer transform )and in first pose front foot should overlap the back foot in second pose.
3 - copy first pose again and repeat pervious method to place character correctly.
4- passing positions happened between 2 contact poses. Look at going forward foot and bring it up in when it crossing other foot. Take hip ( main control) and bring it up. So the knee of the leg that on the ground straighten.

In very minimalism method you just need
Contact - contact - contact
Then add
Passing between contacts.
Contact - pass- contact "- pass"- contact
Do not go straight forward it will be so hard and in!

[NanotechBeasts]

I am happy to see all this thread with all this useful information for noobs to Moho walk cycles because it looks very helpful. I'll be looking over it this summer. One more week of one chaos, chores, and clean up. Thanks for the useful question and key frame info. : )