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Class 100. Smug Walk Part 01

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In this video we are going to animate Smug Walk. Let's get started.This is the first part where we will draw the key poses for the walk.There are generally 4 key poses. The extreme key pose, the contact pose, the passing pose, the breakdown between the passing pose and the extreme key pose. So there are total 8 drawings for both the steps. We are now drawing the extreme key pose. Notice how we keep the torso bent backward for the attitude. This makes the character look confident and proud of itself.Please see the video and follow. We are now drawing the contact pose on frame 5. Here we will lift the left leg up as seen in the video. We then draw another contact pose with the legs flip. We now draw the passing position on frame 9. Notice how the torso of the character changes arc as compared to the extreme key pose. We change the arc of the torso in the passing position to give our walk a snappy effect when it hits the extreme key pose. We then draw another passing pose for the next step on the frame 25. We now draw a breakdown between the passing position and the next extreme. We have now drawn every key pose for the Smug Walk. We will now move to the Part 2 for the animation.

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