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Perfecting the animation:

■ If you like, you can improve the animation by adding some rotation keys

to the pelvis and spine and by adding secondary motion to the feet and

hands. Stagger the rotations of the extremities a few frames following the

movement of the hands and feet.

Animating a Freeform Walk Cycle

While 3ds Max has a dedicated method (Footstep mode) for creating quick

and easy walking animations, you can also create walk cycles with freeform

animation.

In this lesson, you’ll use animated pivot points and IK blend keys to constrain

the feet to the ground plane.

Set up the lesson:

1 Restart or reset 3ds Max.

2 On the Create panel, click the Systems button.

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