Process&Production- A Brief History of Animation- Walk Cycles

A Brief History of Animation -Walk Cycles

 This is Eadweard Muybridge a photographer from the 19th century. Before he took these pictures, people didn't really know how people walked as strange as that may sound. No one understood that when you walk you bob down and up along the way, which is what these images are proving.

He did quite a few of these cycles, of men, women and children to show all the different motions and shapes that are created when we walk or run or jump. These all proved to be very useful to animators as it shows how to draw their characters in every stage.

For some of the images that he had done, were made into silhouettes, like this one of a horse and jockey. He did a few of horses because all of the motions that a horse makes are very different to use and very exaggerated in their leg movements. Which i think is why he was so keen to take pictures of their cycles.