Animation Masterclass: How to Create Walk Cycles in Maya

In this tutorial I break down my workflow for animating walk cycles in Maya, we'll start with studying references to understand the mechanics of a walk then jump into Autodesk Maya and start animating!

Body Mechanics Rig: https://anim-matt.gumroad.com/l/hcAMR
References used: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lLcv...

Social Media 📰
Twitter:   / markmasters92  
Instagram:   / markmasters92  
LinkedIn:   / mark-masters-062a89a4  

Chapters 📘
0:00 Intro
2:51 Breaking Down the Reference
26:33 Body Mechanics Rig Overview
36:10 Animbot
36:55 Setting Up the Maya Scene
44:40 Creating the Contact Pose
1:06:46 Mirroring Contact Pose
1:12:06 Animating the Up and Down of the Hips
1:17:22 Animating the Legs
1:28:20 Animating the Chest, Hips and Spine
1:39:04 Animating the Head + Mirroring the Cycle
1:49:30 Cleaning Up the Graph Editor and Creating a Smooth Loop
2:03:55 Starting on the Right Arm
2:11:30 Finishing the Right Arm
2:25:57 Mirroring the Arm Animation
2:30:03 Final Polish
2:40:53 Translating the Walk Forward