Class Project: Animated Walk Cycle
We’ll be using Adobe Animate to create a 12-drawing walk cycle.

Supplies needed: Adobe Animate CC, Drawing Tablet

Optional: Adobe Photoshop and After Effects

First, we’ll start with a character that we designed with simple shapes in Adobe Animate, and we’ll block out the 4 key poses: the left leg pass, the left leg extension, the right leg pass, and the right leg extension.

Then, we’ll use our knowledge of animation arcs, easing, timing and spacing, to add in-between pose drawings.

After we have our main motion blocked out and in-betweened, we’ll add “secondary motion” and overlapping action by animating the arms and head.

After the animation is roughed out, we’ll go through and clean up the lines using the Pen and Pencil tools.

And the last step of the process is finishing it out with colored fills and shadows.

After the animation is complete, we’ll create an animated GIF out of it and share it with the world!

Tim Harwell

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