What are the key poses of a walk cycle?

Four per step: contact (both feet touching), down (weight compresses), passing (the free leg swings through), and up (push off the back foot). Two steps — eight poses — make the loop. Change the timing or posture and you change the character's whole personality.

How many frames should a walk cycle be?

At 24 fps, a relaxed walk is usually 24 frames for the full two-step loop, 12 per step. Faster characters take fewer frames; heavier ones take more. Start at 24 and adjust until the weight reads right.

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A walk cycle is a looping animation of a character taking two steps, the loop hides the seam, so the character can walk forever. It's also the exercise that teaches weight and personality: contact, down, passing, up, repeat. Browse free walk cycles from LottieFiles creators to study frame by frame or drop straight into a project. Every file downloads as GIF, MP4, Lottie JSON, or dotLottie, free under the Lottie Simple License.

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