Animating a Walk Cycle in Grease Pencil | Blender 2.91

Hey folks! Shenuka here..
Here's how I made a walk cycle loop in Grease Pencil with a combination of hand drawn and puppeted elements.

Music by Matt Quentin

▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 - Intro
00:12 - Character Design
00:20 - Breaking down design
00:35 - Reference lines in Blender
00:45 - Splitting elements into layers
01:05 - Making the loop
01:13 - Contact Poses
01:39 - Passing Postions
02:18 - Down Position
02:54 - Up Position
03:14 - Back Arm
03:21 - Walk Cycle Done!
03:31 - Overlapping Action
04:00 - Lines and Colour
04:36 - Details and Finishing Touches
05:03 - Final Result!

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[npbasim]

I usually draw the arms at their widest swing in the down position and start swinging back only after. I think it feels a bit more naturalistic like that. That's one of the things I picked up from the late great Richard Williams's book. I like your videos a lot. Nice to see you post videos more often.

[joshuaclancy]

Awesome! you are quickly becoming my fav source for grease pencil info!

[alexterusso]

No dislike because it's very helpful 😁😁

[dorenavant]

I love your tutorials, very easy to understand and you help us with things very important

[mkhchannel]

Lo haces parecer tan fácil…gracias! Saludos desde Cali Colombia

[piotr]

This might be a silly question...but wouldn't it be easier (and better) to create parts in separate layers and just reposition them, rather than redraw them with a grease pencil? Sorry, a beginner here so please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

[yasinsabuncu]

Thanks ask a question ; How to crate a character ? Where is to start ?

[ss-ll]

Thank you so much for this nice clip, but I have a question, how long will it take for me to get to this stage

[dkvsmkbna]

Sorry, the project file in the description is VertexColor, not Walk Cycle, could you please correct it? 🙏

[bloom]

Could you tell me how to flip the whole motion so the character would be walking from right to left? thx

[dias]

Hello, could you please explain why blender could be good for 2d animation? I've been told the industry will be moving in this direction.

[iouto]

¿¡Por qué es tan complicado!? D':