Walk Cycle of a Stick
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| Start by creating a circle using elliptical shape
tool. |
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| Using line tool create body of the stick
man. |
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| Using line tool create arms & legs of the
stick man. |
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| Create the rear arm and legs using a slightly
different shade. |
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| Since one pose is completed group the layers.
Duplicate this group and hide the original one. In this group adjust the
body parts as shown in the image below. |
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| Similarly create more groups for each pose of
walk cycle. Each image below belongs to one group of walk cycle
pose. |
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| We have created 7 different groups of poses. Good
enough to create a nice walk cycle. Using custom shape tool create a tree
shape. Place this layer behind the stick man layer groups. |
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| Duplicate and place as shown in the image. |
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| Merge the tree layers. Create 2 duplicates. Place
one on each side of the original trees layers. Merge all tree
layers. |
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| Open animation window. For the first frame keep
the position of tree layer as shown in the image. |
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| Duplicate frame. Move the tree layer and move it
towards left. Try to keep the appearance of tree layer as close as
possible to the previous frame. This will ensure a smooth loopable
animation. |
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| Press the tween button in animation window. Apply
settings as shown. |
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| Delete the last frame. Now we have 7 frames and 7
poses groups. |
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| Select each frame and keep hiding /unhiding walk
cycle pose groups sequentially. |
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| Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized
animated GIF. |
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