One leg (maybe the left leg) valiantly moves forward to soak up the shock of the burden that's now moving forward and downward. For a transient moment, each legs share the weight of the body again before that same weight continues to move forward, now driven by the friction of the recently landed left foot. The right leg then lifts off the ground to play catch-up and prepare for its flip to propel the motion.
Whereas all this is happening, our arms are busy counterbalancing all that swinging that is going on below. As our left leg moves forward, our right arm swings forward to balance the shift in weight. Then, as the right leg moves forward, the left arm counters. Additionally, having all our weight on one leg will not go unnoticed by our hips. As the left leg plants on the bottom and absorbs the load of the body, the left hip rises as it shares in the load.
Subsequently, the correct hip drops as it's not supporting the load of the body, but is currently carrying the proper leg. To counter all this hip swinging, our shoulders move up and down simply opposite the hips. As the left hip rises upon weight absorption, the proper shoulder rises and therefore the left shoulder drops.
Sound difficult? It is. But, it's not impossible. If your character is properly organized in hierarchy, then it's simply a matter of choosing necessary points in the walk and posing your character as it should be there, recording a keyframe, and then repeating the method for the following point. The actual method of creating these poses is up to you. Some folks notice Forward Kinematics (FK) the method to go. Simply begin by animating the center of motion moving forward by animating the foremost parent object of the hips.
Then animate the swing and rotation of the hips and shoulder as they are next in line within the hierarchy, and continue down the row through the legs and arms and at last to the hands and feet. Inverse Kinematics (IK) is additionally a strong tool. In this means, poses can be created by merely grabbing the hands and feet (or their goals, targets, or effectors) and moving them into place to define the pose.
If all the joint restrictions are appropriately set up, the parent arms and legs will move into position. You may probably still should animate the middle of motion moving forward and especially with its arcs, however this problem can be partly solved by making an effector for the hip area that can be animated in an arch path to define the required movement.
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