This was my first time animating any kind of animal walk cycle! I found it extremely hard at first and spent most of my time trying to figure out how the legs move. With a lot of guidance and very helpful feedback, I was able to get this far 😀 There’s still a lot I need to work on in terms of clean up, but I am happy with how much I’ve learnt! Hoping to practice and experiment with more animal walk and run cycles 🙂
So here is my horse walk cycle (so far):
A previous version with the skeleton underneath!
Just to highlight a great reference video I found on animating a horse walk cycle! This is the horse walk by Richard Williams and I used this to understand the horse walk cycle along with the pdf sheets that Steve sent us for this exercise! 😀