Free ebookCharacter Animation Starter Kit: Posing, Weight, and Walk Cycles

Course Description

Character Animation Starter Kit: Posing, Weight, and Walk Cycles is a practical ebook course in Design and Art that helps you create believable movement for video animations. If your characters feel stiff, floaty, or unclear, this course gives you a simple workflow to plan strong poses, control body mechanics, and build clean walk and run cycles that read instantly.

You will learn how to design readable poses using silhouette and line of action, so every key moment communicates clearly. From there, you will build confidence with balance, center of gravity, and reliable ground contact, making motion feel anchored and intentional. A structured blocking workflow and key pose planning method keeps your process fast and focused, while timing, spacing, and ease are introduced in a way that stays understandable and avoids over-complication.

As you progress, you will construct a walk cycle using contacts, passing positions, and extremes, then push it further by adding weight, rhythm, and personality. You will also explore run cycles and faster locomotion basics, plus short body mechanics shots like lifting, pushing, sitting, and stopping to strengthen your animation fundamentals. To support storytelling, the course introduces basic acting beats with clear poses and smooth transitions, then guides you from blocking to splines so you can refine motion without losing clarity.

Whether you animate for games, short films, explainer videos, or social content, these character animation fundamentals translate directly to real production. Start the course today and turn your ideas into expressive, polished character motion.