

To create a Walk Path, select the Figure, Create Walk Path menu command and the default walk path appears in the scene extending from the default figure, as shown in Figure 1. Poser includes an interface called the Walk Designer that can automatically create a walk cycle for the current figure.īefore you can use the Walk Designer, you need to create a Walk Path, which tells the current figure where to walk. Although the keys involved in making a figure walk might seem rather simple, it is actually quite difficult to realistically create a walk cycle using manual keyframes. Once youve learned to create manual keyframes, try to create the keys to make a figure walk realistically across the floor. In this lesson, you learn how to animate a walk cycle using the Walk Designer. We will offer step-by-step tutorials for each task, followed by projects that allow readers to apply each new skill. In the next few months, VFXWorld readers will develop the skills needed to create, render and animate scenes and projects using the amazing tools offered by Poser 7. This is the next in a new series of excerpts from the Thomson Course Technology book Poser 7 Revealed: The e frontier Official Guide.
