This short video (just three minutes long) shows how to use Maya's Motion Trail Tool. The Motion Trail Tool is very useful for smoothing out the kinks and bumps in your animation, to ensure that your arcs and paths of animation are as smooth and flowing as possible. Bumpy animation curves will create pops and bumps in your animation. The Motion Trail Tool is one way of overcoming these problems and giving your animation an extra polish.
Locomotion Resources
There are many resources on walks (and locomotion generally) at Animation Apprentice.
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| Goose-stepping "Monty" |
- How to Animate a Basic Walk with "Monty"
- Animate a Lamp Hopping with Pixo Jr
- Animate a Run Cycle with "Heavy"
- Animate a Jump with Monty
- Animate a Military Walk with Monty
- Animate a Run Cycle with Monty
- Animate a Masculine Walk with Monty
- Animate an Angry Walk with Monty
- Animate a Sad Walk with Monty
- Animate a Basic Walk with Heavy
- Animate a Double Bounce Walk with Monty
- Character Walks with the Bio Motion Walker
- How to Fix a Floaty Walk Cycle
- How to stop feet sliding in a walk cycle
- Why animators need treadmills for walk cycles
- Why Walk Cycles Need Sine Waves
- Animating the "ZigZag Walk" on "The Thief & The Cobbler"
- Two Ways to Animate a Walk Cycle - Which is Best?
- Character Walks by Alexander Savchenko
- Why Animators Should Always Take Two Steps
- Character Walk reference by Houman Sorooshnia
- 100 Ways to Walk by Kevin Parry
- How to Fix Knee Pops in a Walk Cycle
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