Walk Cycle Basics, Maya Tutorial

[WarrenBey]

This was a complete waste of time to watch.

[Ravi5555ful]

Thank you unpicked1

I Love your video!

[crosscorns]

Nice tutorial



[MrAnimeAdam]

I am in my first year of university and I'm studying Digital Animation. I will be on completion putting all my animations onto Youtube. Even though I only have Animation created on Maya so far there are more coming.

I would really appreciate if people would subscribe to my channel or even just give me some constructive comments about them so i am able to enhance my skills.

[malcom108]

just show us how to make the damn walk, with 50 dollars i can pay someone to make me toys story

[unpicked1]

@malcom108 LOL, more like 150 million, you lamer.

[9eman9]

great tutorial buddy, ur more helpful than my teacher

[freshaca3]

Thanks for the videos. I really appreciate it

[freshaca3]

thanks for videos. I appreciate it.

[johnbmcghee]

I wonder if this dudes ever gotten laid

[unpicked1]

@johnbmcghee I wonder why you want to wonder about that? Are you funny or something?? I don't ever wonder if other guys have ever been laid. That's just not something I've ever looked at another guy and wondered.

[whydontyouremember]

@unpicked1 a perfect example of john gabriels greater internet dickwad theory

[10chadjordan01]

@unpicked1 That makes me wonder about poor old john.

[deathnotedo]

@unpicked1 Simple, hes gay

[MaMastoast]

@johnbmcghee "har har look this guy does 3D, what a nerd", real mature, idiot

[1001virus1001]

@johnbmcghee i bet you havent even got laid

[LostEquinox]

@johnbmcghee

and what if youre right? hes still will make more money with what hes doing then you ever will, punk! creativity and the chance to express yourself and your ideas to millions ist worth much more. in this business you only got one shot to make it big but you got your whole life for gettin laid.;)

[paulykid08]

@johnbmcghee Owned

[GamerTouchHD]

@johnbmcghee prob not

[utubedewsh94]

@johnbmcghee Hey Johnny boy its a waste of life talking shit to people. you know??? your mom doesnt count when you get laid and furthermore guys like you are like a crying baby with a rattle because all you know is how to get your shrimp dick waxed by crack induced prostitues. I see youre also jealous of men with skill because dumb shittard apes like yourself will never amount to anything more then driving a truck or working in a sodomized sweathouse.....*patting back* its ok baby dont cry..lol

[unpicked1]

@xotobyox Well, nobody likes you, so at least I'm not as bad off as you are. 

[iansmith3000]

@unpicked1

wow. good one

[Ipodtouchmaniac100]

@xotobyox your retarded, keep your comments to ur self , his accent is perfectly normal

[wildhogsdogs2008]

how to get those control curves, those star like things below the foot and circles round the body......i just rigged my character and couldn't find a way to activate those curves.

[keltar2007]

@wildhogsdogs2008 Create nurbs circles

[benghaith]

He walks like an idiot!! LOL

[DEADreef]

but i can tell a link to download free Maya ... ask me peoples ...hey can you make thoses cartoon ... ???

[DEADreef]

but i can tell a link to download free maya ... ask me peoples ...

[DEADreef]

Hi dude

[MrDubstepaholic]

download a cracked version, they cant be that hard to mfind

[zeraheavenbound]

thank you sooo much for posting! hope to see you more on this topic.

[zeraheavenbound]

Thank you so much-- now i dont need to take forever to make a ten second walk-- thank you!

[zirousMyths]

dude good work! maya is the hardest thing iv ever worked on! got a degree in it but still have sooooo soooo much to learn! check out my work if you have the time man! i concentrate on environments but started to create my first character and rig... not going too well but patients lol! keep up the good work man!

[ZombineProductions]

I have a problem! The background os my MAYA IS BLACK. Its usually gray. How do I fix it?

[craig62p]

m8 your weighting is off

[DuskyVDark]

Thank you. This was a lot of help. I was trying to work on this as an assignment for class but nothing the professor says gets through to me.

[mrfrosty8172]

here is an easier tutorial!!

cross maya with the program endorphine

[vynum]

ya, but it looks like he's having a hard time picking up his legs because they are heavy. By the way, you gotta beer in the fridge? Oh, is the a bowl of froot loops on the kitchen counter?

[1nglewattz1]

You just cut my R&D in half for putting this up, especially the picture. Thanks

[Baldoxxx4000]

bullshit tutorial? do you even know what to do before a walkcycle? its called rigging and youll quit before you even start..

[rubioproductions]

do u know where i can get hold of that walk cycle picture?

[CreeAzT]

pardon for the question.

in Maya can also be video clips or single image?

[OneEightSevenMurder]

There can be videoclips :)...

You mean animations right? Like, .gif files or .avi files etc.

[CreeAzT]

if I refer to the animation of the element you're working

[himechi90]

thanks for the tutorial it was a big help!:)

nice model btw, did you use any muscle?

[ruleboy527]

Ahhhh! Clean that desktop, man!

[InvisSniper]

0123123

[Drucef]

Wait...that playback screen you bring up at 2:42. How do you do that? I'm new at this.

[solrwavz]

there is no way in the world i would believe a free software is better than maya unlimited..

[KAMALNAROUZ]

what f u can get maya for free

[unpicked1]

You cant, not legally anyway.

[youbabe99]

google seach maya download torrent.

but its not a legal way to use maya.

[masterpiraka]

Autodesk doesn't care. As long as you don't get paid from work made on pirated stuff they don't care. Straight from the horse's mouth.

[IITKIIMAD1b]

wait wait wait. are you saying if you just up and stole maya, they wouldn't give 2 shits unless you actually got paid for using it?

[masterpiraka]

Yeah. Adobe has the same mentality, really.

[nitrospeed]

@unpicked1 they used to give a student license which had a water mark for free, not sure if its still carrying on.

[TheSoulKingDom]

@unpicked1 XD jp

[abcameronxyz]

you can get a student version

for around 400$

[unpicked1]

I personally looked for weeks to find a free download of Maya, I couldn't find it. I just ended up buying it.

[IIandrokII]

I found it within an hour lol. YOu just gotta look for torrents...

[rednose91]

thats a pricy app

did you get the Students version?

the licence could run you up to $7000

search Bittorent

and HOLY COW BUDDY!!!

lol

what is going on with your desktop??

[c0ldelement]

I second that.. bajesus.. what disaster of a desktop...lol

[Pakawee]

@unpicked1 wooooow u can get a student version for free for 6 months.

[strtthshw]

I got it for free! But yeah it's not easy...

[gwklam]

University(provided you are a student in the area of design) can give it to you for free, provided permission that you agree you will use it until you are finished as a student

[strtthshw]

yeah, I got mine from school, but we don't need permission....it's kind of a don't ask don't tell thing...

[ParanormalEnities]

@KAMALNAROUZ I dont have maya but i bought 3ds max 2010 becuase i had the money if you dont have the money i dont think its that bad to get it from a torrrent most artist i know began like that.And they are always trial versions

[guitarftw1101]

hey where did you get maya for mac?? cant find it anywhere :S

[PlanetVerdia]

OMG the 3:50 picture. Where did you get it from? Are there more?

[sprinter223]

i was thinking about getting this but it seems muchto complicated for me

[Yustruk]

what program you used...

[lucasrem]

haha, its allover this vid that this guy is using maya in his kitchen..lol

[msdali10]

That`s a cool 3D stuff. I can try to

do that.

[OpethMikael]

from where i can find the picture you used

"Legs and hips position"??

[raiskul]

pause the video at that screen then print the screen and paste into paint and you'll have the image

[Davelopper]

fanboys are always pathetic...

[Tazy50]

are you using screenflow?ishowu?screenium??

[redtacto]

blenders just out of the question its a peice of shit its 3dsmax and maya blender is garbage

[Tazy50]

ur just saying that cuz u suck at blender. blender is just as good as maya or other programs. just cuz its free doesn't mean it has to suck.

[unpicked1]

I must admit, I seen some pretty good animations the other day by a guy that used blender, so, I don't think it sucks.

But if it was better than 3ds max, and Maya, then Dreamworks, Pixar, Lucas Films would be using it, they don't, they use either Maya, or 3ds max.

I know Lucas Films use it for a fact, because I have talked with people that work at Lucas Films. They use Maya.

So it may be good for a free program, but it does not hold a candle to Maya or 3ds max.

[Tazy50]

yeah. i know why. i know why they use the Autodesk programs for animations. Its just that people think just because its free it has to suck. and also Blender was released after Autodesk was. Blender has been around for less time that autodesk. So people never got to actually using blender because before Blender came out, the best brand was Autodesk. And since people became good with Autodesk, they never got around to teaching Blender because they never got around to using it.

[unpicked1]

Well, Like I said, I seen a fellow with some videos up on here the other day of a model of optumis prime, and he said he used blender to make it.

It was pretty impressive, so I don't think it sucks. I did before I saw that guys videos though, LOL.

[Tazy50]

well just saying that you were wrong before. and if you want more proof about how much of a very powerful tool Blender is, you can watch some of *My* blender videos if you want

[unpicked1]

Alright, man. I'll check them out sometime.

[masterpiraka]

....You're ralking about this tool as if it were a game.

[Tazy50]

im noy sure what you mean but if you r trying to say that im referring to Maya as a game, ur wrong. i never said that maya sucks (neither did i say it about any autodesk programs). Maya rocks i love maya and also i love 3ds max. i have used both and they rock. but i'm just saying that Blender is just as good as those two and it does not suck just because its free....

[masterpiraka]

No. Blender is NOT as good as Maya/ max. It's not BECAUSE it's free. It's because blender is to maya as anim8or is to blender.

[Tazy50]

no actually blender can do everything that maya can. such as Ik chains and more. but anim8or doesn't have Ik constraints or disconnecting bone tools and such...

[unpicked1]

can it do cloth?

[valek27]

yes soft bodys collision fields(wind vortex etc.) most people have converted to blender and never looked back

[WeretFilms]

@unpicked1

Blender can yeah. Blender is pretty much just as good as Maya, but it's not as smooth or as easy.

[GOOB3000]

@unpicked1 Yep! Great tut btw.

[masterpiraka]

Shit...I spelled example wrong.

[masterpiraka]

Blender doesn not have Facerobot, or plenty of other plugins/ features that Maya, 3ds has.

[Tazy50]

blender does have something like facerobot. its called lattices....

[aikiuke]

BLENDER BOY!!! BWUAHAHAHA, lol, j/k

[elynegrao]

Thx dude!

[commentman19]

thanks for this vid... ^^

[unpicked1]

LOL, go tell that to pixar, and dreamworks.

[vline09]

LOL

[Ramza2k8]

man any idea how to make a loop in anime studio pro

[unpicked1]

Sorry, man. I've never used that program, so I cant tell you.

Take it easy.

[Ramza2k8]

ow my that so sad!! but i've watched yur vidoes really good like i'm watching a real tv series cartoon. anyway can yu give some suggestion best 3d animation software for windows xp.

[unpicked1]

Well, Maya can be used on Windows, Mac, and Linix. 3ds max can be used on windows too.

[Ramza2k8]

does maya easy to use and to understand for a beginner?

[Tazy50]

no for a beginner you should use Anim8or if you have never ever made a 3d animation before. if you are a little bit experinced then use Blender. Just google both to get them.

[joelr84]

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what walking cycle ur gonna get

[unpicked1]

True, but it's always nice to get the raspberry filled ones, LOL.

[tarrizzzzzzzzz]

whats best maya or 3ds max? plz reply

[unpicked1]

Sorry, I cant tell you, I've never used 3ds max.

[tarrizzzzzzzzz]

ok thx annyway

[31337Lisper]

If you want the best thing available use blender, that's even GPL.

[unpicked1]

Oh be gone from here, you might get blocked talking like that on my videos! LOL.

Do you think pixar, or dreamworks use blender??

No, they use Maya, or 3ds max. They'd laugh at your face if you said to them blender was better.

[HANGER187]

I want 9 minutes and 57 seconds of my life back. This was poor.

[unpicked1]

Well, I want my 15 seconds back from reading, and replying to your comment. And since my time is more valuable than yours, were even.

[Tazy50]

oh shoot (unpicked1) nice comeback!!!!!!!!!

[imvuri]

Show more,talk less.

And..Prepare what you are going to say!

Now Im watching a man confessing he once spend a-whole-lot-of-time on animating every frame...??? Ever watched a pixar movie?

And that walk cycle is just...horrid! The feet might be on the spot your sheet told you, but what an odd walk,nobody walks like that. So...You didnt show a nice walk,and you didnt tell me how to do it.The only thing you took 10 minutes for is that the pose on frame 1 should be the same as on frame 25...well duh!

[unpicked1]

Wow, for some one that says to talk less, you sure run your mouth a lot?? LOL.

Take it easy.

[foadiiii]

LOL

[sammyman60]

srry for double commenting but nice vid

[unpicked1]

Thanks, man.

[doodahdom]

im downloadin it now its takin like 6 hours =(

[unpicked1]

Oh, your downloading Maya? Yeah, it's a huge file, even with a high speed connection, it well take a while to download.

[sammyman60]

wow, whats ur speed, cause i downloaded it in like about......... ...........10 minutes. 10 gb games are like 5 to 7 hours

[unpicked1]

I think it's like 500mbs or something. I think I could download it in 40 minutes, but I have like a 400mb download limit, so I would freeze up before I could down load the whole thing.

and I'd never be able to download a 10 gb game. But that's the beauty of Hughes net, LOL. At least it's better than dail up. It use to take me all day to download a 3 minute youtube video.

[schlomojorgensen]

It's the uma-bomber! Cool!

[jonathaniscool531]

lol. wow. that is an extremely complicated desktop, did u transfer everything from drive C there XD

[tomat1]

worthless, u didnt go thru any technical stuff....

[unpicked1]

Man, You only have 10 minutes on youtube. It would take alot longer than 10 minutes to go through and show people all the technical stuff.

I was just telling them the basics, Thus the name of the video.

I have a series of videos were I go through and do the entire cycle with a character. If you need a video to show you how to do a walk cycle, check them out.

Well, take it easy.

[twizy123]

wow that desktop was really cluttered

nice vid

[trevorthewild]

Turbo is maded by nurbs, right? My problem is that I want to union two different nurb-objects into one (foot and leg). Is there any method to do such a thing or did you do your whole creation out of just one nurb? :o

by the way, thanks for all answers!

[unpicked1]

No, He is made of polygons. To tell you the truth, I don't know what good nurbs are for, I never use them. I didn't make Turbos body, I bought it and modified it to the way I wanted it. But I have made about 20 models myself, and I just always use polygons, sometimes SubDs, but never nurbs.

If I were you, I'd convert your nurbs objects to polygons, Combine the 2, and merge the vertices together.

Well, take it easy.

[lpfann]

how do you color him like that. I mean I havent figured out that yet. I usually go to hypershade but you cant really do a completely custome texture(unless you made it on paint) but like I made this Mario cap, and I cant really hypershade it to look right

[unpicked1]

It's kind of complicated, Under windows, go down to the uv texture editor. You can use it to help you get your textures right. If you mess around with it a while, you'll figure it out.

[lpfann]

THANK YOU

you rock!

[lpfann]

but..(and sorry for commenting so much) i dont really get how you do this UV texture editor.. like I dont get how to color it and al that, I've played around with it buts just a litte too complicated

[trevorthewild]

An other question;

I have set my clips to absolute but when I´m animating the whole thing to move forward the control curves are behaving like they are relative. Do you have any idea what the source of this problem is?

[unpicked1]

have You made sure the channel offsets are all absolute?

If you are animating it to move forward, It's really best that the global control not be in the character set. And make sure when you animate after creating the animation clip, that you de-select the character set.

If you don't de-select it, it can really mess you up.

[trevorthewild]

Thanks for the answer. It really, really helped!

[trevorthewild]

What I mean is HOW did you animate the walkcycle it self

[trevorthewild]

Are you animating the joints in the walking man or do you use a ik handle-tool wich you set keys in. Or are you animating something else when you do your beautiful walkcycle?

[unpicked1]

Well, I have control curves, that are point constrained to the IK handels. And I animate the curves. It's a lot easier than trying to go in, and select that small ik handle all the time. And you can freeze the transformations on the control curves, and you can reset to the bind pose, just by zeroing out all the channels.

I never animate the joints. It's just so much easier with control curves.

Well, thanks for watching, man.

[mustan380]

I just finished my very first animation, and I did the render. Once it finished the render, I played my animation, but windows media or quick time couldn't play it because they both did not recognise the compresor file used. In the render settings, I used avi format and compresion cinepack codec. How can I make either media player or quick time recognise this compresion method? I'm using the PLE. It will be highly appretiated.

[unpicked1]

Re render it as a .mov or .wmv instead of a .avi. Or you will have to go get a video converter that can convert an avi to a mov, or wmv. They cost around 20.00.

[mustan380]

Thank you unpicked1, I appreciate your help!

[EJ1202]

You can also use SUPER. It converts pretty much any graphics file into pretty much any other form. Does the job great and is fully customizable. Oh yeah, and its free

[gamma21]

how do you make a person from top to bottom?

[unpicked1]

There is only a 500 word limit for comments on here man. You just asked a question that people have wrote books about, LOL.

All I can say is go to w w w . digitaltutors . c o m.

[bright3d]

Thank you!

[unpicked1]

Your welcome, man.

[namrataluharia]

can u suggest some dvd sites through which i can order and learn character animation...plz

[unpicked1]

w w w . digitaltutors . c o m

[namrataluharia]

thanks man!!! this is like a boon for a starter like me :-)

[unpicked1]

Glad it helped you, man.

[unpicked1]

Glad it helped you, man.

[duncmoney]

I need a little help on the feet. For some reason I can't figure out how to make it look like the person steps. I just have the legs swinging. Do you have to go back and key the rotations on the ankle and stuff?

[unpicked1]

It's best to make a set driving key for that. I have some videos that show how to make one.

[MePlease2211]

i cant even make a sphere on it without feeling retarded... unnnngth i wanna make a person!

[unpicked1]

It hard, It takes time to get the hang of it. Well, take it easy.

[azmoh65]

how much is maya ?

[unpicked1]

to much, LOL. take it easy.

[robotwo]

Nice one , thanks for the helpin' hand :D

[unpicked1]

Glad it helped, Man.

[Dorian0011]

how do you keep the character in place?

[unpicked1]

As long as i don't move his global control, He will stay in that one spot. Thanks for watching, man.

[ordinaryperson140]

so far i can read the first 2 are 1/25 and 4/6 and what is the third one

[unpicked1]

1/25, 4/16, 7/19, 10/22. and 13 should be the opposite of 1/25, If you follow that, you can get a pretty good walk cycle. Thanks for watching, man. Take it easy.

[ordinaryperson140]

i watched the video and tried to look at the diagram and figure out what the numbers were and i couldn't find them what do the numbers say in the diagram my walk cycle is working well so far but i need the frame numbers, or the diagram itselft,

Thanks in advance

[pooyag]

i like DT's stuff, but i love Gnomon! DT is boring...but i cant deny how well they teach stuff. they have made my life easier ;)

just wondering, did u get paid for this? looks like an ad to me.

[unpicked1]

I wish I got paid, but no. I just want to show people how I learned all that I have learned about Maya. I guess it does look like an add, LOL. Never heard of gnomon. I'll have to check it out. Well, take it easy.

[helewa007]

special thank's for you..:)

[unpicked1]

Glad it helped, Man.

[Daemonecles]

kinda good tutorial, needs alot of editing down to concise what's actually useful information, hard to stick with the tutorial because you kind of plod along and ramble, might start creating scripts for your tutorial to help that. Good start.

[unpicked1]

Thanks, Man.

[izzysmart]

cool package is use FX home for effects take loads of time may well look at 3d next still playing with green screen at mo nice job though

[unpicked1]

Thanks, izzysmart. Well, take it easy.

[DatoFarid]

yo thx man.

can u teach how to make running tutorial.?

like soldiers attacking.

do u know how to make crowd tutorial.?

i found one but i hv no idea where to find motion capture material

[unpicked1]

Well, I've never use motion capture, So i can't help you much there. I might make a running tutorial sometime. But If i do, i'll put it up on unpicked2. Well, take it easy, man.

[DatoFarid]

lol thanx very much yo. i really appreciate it.

[amiswebos]

i have Maya 2008 and i was talking about the Preference folder but ok ill try that what first that way i will have something go on to fix this darn problem

If you go to the top coner and click on "Help" then go down to "Maya Help" section, and go to 'Getting Started with Maya" then go down to "overview" then go down to "restore default user settings" it will show you how to find the preference folder.