Walk Cycle of a Stick Man
Drawing walk cycle of a stick man |
| 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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May 14th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Do you do anything else with stick figures? I have to do a speech on how to do stuff and i chose to draw stick figures because there so easy but so many ways to draw them. but i was thinking,if its all right if i used youre help on my speech?
August 1st, 2007 at 6:16 am
nice tut. keep going
November 5th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
easy as pie
November 5th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
this thing sucks
November 5th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
so easy as 1,2,3
November 8th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
man dis is so easy enybody could do it its not hard at all 4 me 2 do so anybody who reads dis can do it if u just try 2 do it.
November 13th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
this thing is way to…..boring
and no little 8th grader is going to get this stuff like there kinda slow!!
its a little hard foro me too but i did it anyway!!
Kaylee♥
January 6th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
nice tutorial, i was about to break my computer in two cuz i couldnt make my cycles look good, now i have to add a shotgun and ill have one violent meme
January 11th, 2008 at 6:47 am
Nice work.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Thank you. Really simple and easy to understand tut.
Once you know how to do it, you can take it to wherever you want and try out more complex stuff.
Regards,
Thanae
February 24th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
this thing is way to…..boring
and no little 8th grader is going to get this stuff like there kinda slow!!
its a little hard foro me too but i did it anyway!!
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I’m a 6TH GRADER and I got it.
May 16th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
this is ok its mor fun if u could make them kill each other
June 29th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Excellent tutorial. Nice work.
Cheers!