Character Rigging and Advanced Animation: Bring Your Character to Life Using Autodesk 3ds Max

© Purushothaman Raju 2019

P. RajuCharacter Rigging and Advanced Animation https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5037-2_8

8. Animating: Walk and Run Cycle

Purushothaman Raju¹ 

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Bangalore, Karnataka, India

 

In the earlier chapters, we learned how to create custom character rigs using bones, bipeds, and CAT tools. We also learned how to bind these rigs created to a character mesh. In this chapter, we look at and understand the various phases of the walk and run cycle and learn how to animate a walk and run cycle for bones, bipeds, and CAT rigs manually.

I use reference videos from Endlessreference.com as backdrops to animate the character in this chapter. You will not see these files in the chapter folder, since they are third-party copyrighted content ...