HOW TO ANIMATE A RUN CYCLE ▶️▶️▶️ TUTORIAL #03 (Intermediate level) 

I'm taking part in the Blender animation challenge 2019 by Grant Abbitt, who forwarded this link - and this tutorial is invaluable. Many thanks!

Note: If you are doing a run cycle for game characters, do your self a favour and start the cycle in the passive pose right before jump up. It looks weird when starting a run cycle with widely spread legs.

Very well explained,thank you so much,i hate tutorials where they repeat the same things over and over,but you go directly to the point of every step

i got really frustrated until i find you.. subscribed 🙏

Result is super. But you explain so fast and doing sometimes without explaining

0:04 run cycle 0:20 elegir como corre 0:29 que comunica cuando corre 0:45 personaje/personalidad influencia el como corre 1:11 velocidad del ciclo 1:31 middle speed run 1:52 poses clave 1:58 extreme pose: down up push 2:19 straight leg 2:30 blocking 2:58 primer pose 3:05 bajar cadera acomodar, piernas y rotar cadera 3:18 rotar pies 3:22 acomodar pie que no toca el piso, rotar cadera 3:36 acomodar brazos 3:53 cerrar los dedos 3:57 dirigir la mirada 4:14 primer y ultimo keyframe 4:21 invertir pose 4:30 graph editor: de spline a linear 4:39 down/passing pose 4:47 pie plano rotar cadera torso y cabeza 5:07 push pose 5:17 explicacion del timing y estilo elegido para la animacion 5:46 como ajustar los tiempos de la animacion para pose push 6:05 acomodar las piernas 6:38 ajustar los tiempos de la animacion para pose up 6:46 acomodar cadera, piernas, hombros 6:57 espejar las poses 7:04 playblast del blocking 7:18 convertir curvas a spline, activar post y pre infinite cycle 7:27 ocultar todo menos una pierna 7:45 añadir keyframe antes de down pose 8:02 graph editor break tangent y acomodar curva 8:25 eliminar keyframe 8:30 explicacion de curva del eje Z cuenado el pie toca el piso (linear) 8:45 pulir las poses del pie en todo el ciclo 9:04 explicacion de como se dobla la planta del pie 9:15 vista frontal para rotacion pie (hacia adentro y afuera, plano cuando toca el piso) 9:38 cuidar la pose de las rodillas con stretch, deformers, controles 9:58 create editable motion trail y show en la vista 10:20 visualizacion de curva en pie y brazo 10:40 pulir las curvas en graph editor 10:55 espejar la animacion a la otra pierna y mover en la linea de tiempo 11:43 acomodar los keyframes en el graph editor para que respeten tiempo del ciclo 12:08 acomodar tangentes del principio y final 12:20 offset las rotaciones y pulir curvas del torso 12:43 pulir cuello y cabeza 13:04 offset las rotaciones y pulir curvas del brazo 13:22 espejar la animacion al otro brazo y mover en la linea de tiempo 13:25 agregar variacion en tiempo y rotacion del brazo 13:53 resultado final

Wow! I'm going to binge watch these tutorials, they're golden!

super tutorial animation for maya

My favorite run cycle tutorial so far! Thanks so much!

I love you channel

You're one of the greatest animators/tutors there are :) we need content creators like you!

Slick demonstration. This is good inspiration as I create my own 2D animation tutorials.

tnx so much!

Excellent info, super video! Very illustrative for amateurs like me. Please keep doing like this. Thank you! Just a note: the audio needs a bit more volume, just a bit. Im suscribed now =)

Awesome tutorial 👍👌👏✌💐🌷

you are supper great ,thank you

excellent job...Thanks to you for the tutorial.. i learned a lot

Nice👍👍👍

I really wantto be an animator anymore :).. awsome result. thanks for video

Tank youu

Fantastic!! super clear!

Thanks! This is awsome!

Great one

keep making videos like this ,and thanks so much for this video

One thing I perhaps misses. How did you copy over the adjusted right leg animation over to the left leg. You did some adjusting of the foot and then toes. But i did t see how the complete animation was pasted over and flipped for the left side?

smooth

Extremely helpful, thankyou very much

thanks for the useful tutorial. Some advice: tangens for the step can be CLAMPED it's include linear and spline, so you don's need worry about floating heel on the ground

Very in-depth and helpful tutorial, cheers!

Very helpful, thanks!

cool

awsme..........

Great tutorial i guess better for a bit advanced players but still rly nice breakdown of important controls to manipulate at the right time. Thx for sharing your knowledge.

I love your tutorials! Thank you and please keep making videos :)

cool!

You’re amazing!

thanks for the video, i like so much this is the best tutorial!

best tutorial ever. thanks you so much for making this tutorial. it helped me a alot

where did u learn to animate?? your animation is so REAL!!! i wish i could animate like you..

Finally I found Gold!

Thank you, this video helpt me alot

This Is why I subscribe ur Channel, Amazing Tutorial truly Helpful Vid...cheers

Thank you so much!

Thank you for these you're the best grill!

At about 4:30 you say to copy and mirror the values. Do you do this manually, bocy copy/pasting the values in the translations for each control, or is there a shortcut for doing this in Maya? This seems to take me a whole lot longer than you, even though the video is sped up, you only seem to be taking a few steps to do so. Great tutorial! Thank you!

subscribed! awesome stuff and well explained

I love your accent!

Awesome tutorial. I'm going to give this go!

why does the animation so smooth? I'm trying to do this but it is not that smooth:((( Need a whole proccess tutorial, pls:((

for a beginner, this is kinda hard to follow since you don't mention some shortcuts and you don't explain about what you doing in the editor but overall it was a nice reference for a starter.

Thanks A lot!! This really help me!!! :D

love this tutorial, but i died at the polishing part :(

thank you for this :) ...

5:23 8:36 9:07

So nice, it helps me a lot... Please make a video on animal walk and run cycle for beginners. Really gonna help a lot. Thank u. 🙏

Hi there, would request can you make one video on animating creature using bouncing ball...(the layout and blocking ) thankyou

The hips movement is inverted

Hi, are you planning to do some game animation tutorial in the future? For example like sword attack or something similar? I'm having trouble going from stepped to spline. How much do I do it in blocking stage, and what to leave for polishing, what to animate first, torso and head, then legs and arms? A good workflow would be appreciated. :)

how you did mirror pose start Frame12 untill end of frame? please

Thank you

thanks !

Im confused, did you only mirror the legs for the second poses?

Just curious at 4:25, I was able to get how you mirrored the feet but I didn't see where you mirrored the upper torso as well. Was there a quick way of doing that I didn't see or did you just use the same process as you did with the feet, you just didn't show it in the video?

thanks

Scrolled down my news feed and i see 7 videos from this channel, one after the next. Turns out this video is 3 years old. RU-vid spamming hardcore. Really not sure why youtube think it is a good idea to spam this much video.

how to pose and paste it into invers pose(miror pose) , like in the Blender 3D ,so i dont hv to instal Studiolib for just making mirir pose

Ty..

Thank you for the tutorial! This is so well done and very informative. Please do more videos (*subscribed)

The hip does not work this way, there must be an opposition to the shoulders (twisting / inertia compensation) .. Thanks for the tutors!!! subscribe!+

Can anyone shed the light on how she gets a single curve for each joint? I get seperate curve for location, rotation and scale on each keyframe for every bone, which means 9 curves for each bone on x,y, and z axis, making the work very intimidating.

Hi ,I want to know how to make progressive run cycle

How to mirror the animation for the opposite body part? It has gone crazy when I copy and paste the key for the opposite body part:(((

hello your videos is awesome. could you make tutorial about transition from walk cycle to run cycle. thx)

11:58 from that point i lost concentration i u did just goen above my head. u first key framed another leg but after that u just showed both legs are in same position and u moved timeline keys foreword that thing got me confused can u please explain in another video or by other medium .

Just one question... I don't mean to be rude or arrogant here, the pelvis seems to rotate in opposite direction compared to the legs and by that I mean, as far as I know, if the right leg is in front then the right side of the pelvis will be forward but in this example its opposite. Was this a choice or am I missing something here?

at the point "...but this time I have to mirror the values" is very difficult to understand exactly what you did.

Can you please show how to make a skip cycle? 😊

Can you show me the spacing, my animation is too fast need assistance

how do you mirror the values? T-T I'm lost...

Great tutorial! But how exactly do you mirror the values in 4:27? Thanks :)

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hi .. i would like to know what render set up and lighting setup you used to get this look and feel.. please help :)

the docs you use in de explain tutorial can you put in one place to practice

Hello, I have a question maybe not too related to the video. Whenever I try to copy keyframes of a hand to another, it doesn't work like how it should be when mirror keyframes of feets. Can you show me how to mirror keyframes for arm ?

How did you mirror the poses?

i think what axes of the root rotate when the foot up why you reverse it!

What dose mean by cycle in blender??

how do you step snap run cycle?

Hi i want to start from the beginner util professional?

Hi, how you render your animation?

Which software u used

wait how do you do motion blur?

aren't the "HIPS" supposed to oppose the chest

Hi.. I have a doubt. Before starting Animation, do you keep auto tangents mode in animation settings?

To be 3d animator is it necessary to do 2d animation ??

Bit fast in the middle of the video

how did you give that blurr effect? or thats how it comes once you animate it?

you skipped so many details like which frame to copy and where basically the video is good but not 100% help full next time please dont skip that much of important details coz they counts!

I want that file project maya

from where i can the Rig?