Walking (Adobe Character Animator Tutorial)

The Walk behavior lets your animated characters walk, slump, sneak, run, and more. In this tutorial, we'll look at the differences between simple and three view walk rigging, and then go through a step by step process rigging a PSD file to get it up and running (literally). We'll also show how to customize your walk parameters to match the style to your puppet's personality, and show some examples of how users are using the Walk behavior for everything from runway fashion to bouncing musicians! Finally, we'll end with some tips and tricks with things like making the background and foreground move, or how to get a quadruped to walk.

0:00 Walk Behavior Overview
3:47 Simple Walk Rigging
7:27 Customizing the Walk
9:25 Three View Walk
11:39 Tips And Tricks

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[emilbrothersmedia]

I just want to thank you Samurai - I stumbled upon one of your videos and since I am already using the creative cloud I immediately installed the character animator. Since then I watched nearly everyone of your videos twice and can't stop playing with this amazing piece of software. Your tutorials are in my opinion amongst the best tutorials for any software ever. They cover everything you need to know, they are perfectly suited for beginners and provide you an easy acces to the character animator capabilities. Awesome !! Thank you so much for everything you're doing and I hope you will continue it for a long time :)

[extremesegaa]

I wish every youtuber had great step by step explanations and clear speaking like you do, keep it up

[kingy-ai]

Fellow tutorial maker here - and I must say, your tutorials are top notch. Well explained and thorough. Big fan.

[ChrisHoffmanHoffmangler]

You always seem to know the parts of my project that I'm struggling with and post a relevant tutorial. Thanks!

[laovoly]

Thanks to your great tutorial, I was able to make an animation, too. DAVE, You are my great teacher.

[KnockemOrLockem]

The Samurai has 85K subscribers and still answers all of our questions 👍🏻🙏🏻❤️

[ganapathysubramaniam]

character animator via these wonderful videos has opened up a portal for me! Thank you!

[udittatisar]

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[RicsiDy]

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[neoblackcyptron]

Your team is really spearheading an amazing product. Good job. This is one of the best well designed well written pieces of software ever created. It’s intuitive and these video tutorials are excellent.

[houseofsugars]

Another winner!! Thanks so much for these. And I LOVE what Tiffany LaBelle has done !!

[ScaryStoriesNYC]

12:56 BRILLIANT!! I've been looking for something like that to use in music videos that I had to put n the back burner because they just weren't working. I was thinking of animating them in 3D, but this trick should save those projects. THANK YOU.

[laurabelpiano]

Thank you so much for these wonderful lessons!

[CloakedMan]

Thank you Dave so much, this was exactly the tutorial I needed.

[heroesofcolor]

This was incredibly helpful!! Youtube School is the best. Thank you Dave!!

[kailashrajkhowa]

Thanks a lot! I was struggling a lot to do this

[kelvin_darwin]

Are you guys planning on doing a front view walk cycle option soon? That will be a game changer.

[quincyndekwe]

One of my legs and arms are going the wrong direction and I keep trying to fix it thinking maybe I accidentally duplicated my right arm/ leg but nope. Yet they are moving the same direction. What am I doing wrong?

[artistictreehgr]

Great videos they are super helpful. I have a character that has a skirt. I wanted to know how you go about adding dynamics to the skirt so it can collide with the legs as she walks.

[bibleventures]

Just finished making my first video that used character animator (previously used simple key framing in fcpx) and my rigging is a mess with extra limb iks and walk behaviours on every limb to make them function! Still - it was a start and allowed me to make a video in a very short timescale. I shall have to make use of the videos to sort my puppeting out, ensuring they don’t revert to a scrambled mess every time I drag them newly onto a scene). Still - it’s making a big difference in what I do, so thanks to you and the team.