This is the character walk style animation that I made in after effects. This animation was easier than I anticipated to create and I was able to make something that I was satisfied with on the first attempt. I made the person itself in Adobe Illustrator then imported this as a composition into After Effects making sure each part of they body was on a separate layer so could be manipulated separately. I then parented the pieces together as shown in the screenshot below so that elements would move together and smoothly, I then mainly used rotation keyframes with some position keyframes to move the person to create the walk cycle making sure to make the beginning and end keyframes the same. I didn’t really have much issue when creating this animation, only in the process of rendering it. The issue that I had was once it was rendered and uploaded to Youtube it looked a lot slower than what it had looked like in After Effects so I went back into After Effects and moved in the timeline so that the space between keyframes was shorter and the end result was quicker. My whole animation is 2 seconds long but since the start and end frame are the same it can be looped infinitely. I really like the outcome of this animation and think it looks quite good for a first attempt at anything like this.
Digital Design
