Personal Studies - Confident Walking Cycle

Fig.1 - Walking Cycle

I started working on my walk cycle and decided to go with a walk that suited the character. As shown in figure one, I used a reference from YouTube for my confident walk cycle. After that, I gave the character a pompous personality and exaggerated his walk. I did this by giving the arms and leg more of a swing motion. For example, as shown in the two images; I made his spine more laid back for confidence and his shoulders and arms overly exaggerated. After refining the character poses, I decided to give an extra pose by making him wink and greet, to give him more of a personality. 

I thought this went well as I took the appropriate steps for creating an animation. I made sure I kept using the 12 principles of animation by applying them to the character. Was very intrigued when doing this project as I made him have personality and look more alive. 

Fig.2 - Exaggerated Pose

References:

I want to be an animator (2020) Walk cycle in 15 steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Icj7fhPZbs [accessed on