walk cycle basics

I looked at a tutorial on how to animate a walk cycle on flash the video is by Alan Becker a online animator 


The four most important frames when animating are the contact pose and passing poses once you drawn the first set revers the sides of the feet this is how to create a basic walk animation.

To give your character personality you change the pace and timing of the walk so to make a character seem depressed you have to slow down the walk and the time between steps and for positioning the position of the arms and hear create the effect of emotion.