However, this wasn’t a trip for the hardened and competitive road cyclist. A strappy top and a pair of cycling shorts was a far cry from the layers of Lycra needed to cover every inch of my body from the cold air at home. I wasn’t wrong, a mid-September trip gave us sun and blue sky every day, with temperatures between 25 – 30 degrees. When Sian invited me to go back to see the region by bicycle with the Tourist board of Catalonia, I couldn’t resist.Īfter cycling around Britain and battling the frosty mornings, wind and rain even in August, I knew Catalonia was going to provide some consistency. I remember eating lorry loads of shellfish, staying in a swimming costume all day and turning a lovely shade of brown on the golden sand.

“Growing up, my family’s favourite holiday destination was a little campsite called Mas Patoxas, a campsite north of Barcelona and south of the Pyrenees on the Costa Brava. Here’s her diary from her time exploring this beautiful part of Northern Spain on two wheels, including pristine beaches, tasty treats and, um, kissing lion bottoms. Rig = Max for Maya by Peter Starostin and James Hunt.My wonderful and bike-mad mate Mary Spender took a five day cycle trip through Catalonia. However, I hope this video will also be helpful to other animation students or anyone that is interested in learning more about the computer animation process. At this point in the course the students have already created a walk cycle using drawn animation so I aim to show a process that follows on from their traditional training.

I created the video as a tutorial for the animation students of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee. This is a sped-up recording of me animating a walk cycle in Autodesk Maya. The walk cycle is looped over and over, thus having to avoid animating each step again. In animation, a walk cycle is a series of frames in sequence that loop to create an animation of a walking character.

Character Walk Cycle Tutorial by Brendan BodyĪutodesk Maya animation Tutorial you will learn how to create a walk cycle.

Maya walk cycle