Curves pre infinity cycle, curves post infinity cycle to cycle all keys. Turn on character set to key character to 1 and 33.Odd numbers when working on walk cycles to give a mid point.Weight and balance is important to look natural.Update view- all (this can lag if character is high res).Right tangent- Use plateau (keeps tangents flat when needed and smooth when needed).

I also added images of how i worked from the tutorial. It also helped particularly with the graph editor! You can just go ahead and fix this manually.Overall, I learnt so many new things to do with animating in maya and the digital tutors really helped with my overall timing of walks and how to overlap action as well as follow through action. Note that the tangents are a bit broken where the start and end pose meet. However, you will need make sure that the start/end poses are always the same if you decide to change one of them. The 'infinity curve' will automatically update if you make changes to your animation. Your graph editor should look something like this: In the graph editor, check View->Infinity. Loop the selected channels and add offset when necessary (in this case it will add offset to the Translate Z channels of the hip, feet, and knee controls). They should be the same for the Basic Guy rig.ĭrag the Translate Z forward until the pose is to about where you think it should be.įrom here on you will want to use the carrot keys ('>' and 'Post Infinity->Cycle with Offset.

Select all of the controls that will need to translate forward: the hip, feet, and knee controls. The problem now is getting this end pose to where it should be at the end of the cycle. Middle click-holding on the start pose's frame in the timeline, dragging to the frame the end pose will be on, and hitting 's' to key it. Copy over the start pose by selecting all of the rig's controls (just use the built in 'Select All' button for the Basic Guy rig), Steps should apply to the Basic Guy rig as well:īefore cycling your animation you will need to make the end pose exactly the same as your start pose - though further along The Lt Dan rig is used as an example, but the following This is a mini tutorial on cycling a walk across the screen in Maya.

Maya walk cycle