Blender Walk Cycle Tutorial – Easy Beginner Guide
In this tutorial, I show you how to turn a static 3D character into a full walk cycle animation in Blender — step by step and completely free. Perfect for beginners who want great results without complicated rigging or character modeling.
You will learn:
✔ How to use Pose Mode, FK/IK and X-Symmetry efficiently
✔ How to create the key poses of a walk cycle
✔ How to build the contact pose and passing pose
✔ How to animate hips, shoulders, and feet for a natural motion
✔ How to use the “Flipped Pose” function to work twice as fast
✔ How to create a clean 24-frame looping walk cycle
MPFB2 is the free successor to MakeHuman and lets you build customizable characters directly inside Blender — perfect for animation, storytelling, game dev, and fast prototyping.
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Enjoy animating — and see you in the next video!
– Marie
00:00 Introduction
00:26 Create a control rig
01:04 Create a starting pose
02:28 Contact pose
06:40 Copy flipped pose
10:55 Animate the Torso
11:49 Hips
13:09 Shoulders
13:45 Enjoy the result!