Motionbuilder Tutorial: Basics of motion editing a walk.

Motion editing a motion captured walk -- Watch live at

7:20 plotting skeleton — control rig
8:50 creating a group
9:16 making him walk straight on Z-axis
12:34 adjusting walk cycle start with passing pose
16:09 fix head/neck animation
19:00 changing background color
21:00 animating the lights
23:00 posing fingers on animation layer
Press 3 = non texture
26:00 how to select joints only
26:53 how to mirror a pose
29:00 how to lock animation cycle in place
32:22 first pass. Copy pose of first frame and paste on to the last frame Zero key = makes additive animation back down to base animation
35:10 1st pass. key on every passing pose so that his feet doesn’t slide
36:40 2nd pass planting the foot on the ground
44:27 make sure there are no hitches— bake all your animation — story — insert character animation track — character — take
44:23 smoothing the curves lessening the noise on the data smooth = averaging out curves and buffer = keeps the spikes of the curves
53:25 how to change the speed of the cycle
1:03:24 how to make floor contacts