This is a walk cycle animation I made of the character Bill Cipher from the TV show Gravity Falls. I was assigned to draw a non-human subject in a walking cycle. I chose Bill Cipher because I thought he would be an interesting figure to animate, since the character never walks and only floats, but also would be entertaining to animate.

I started by drawing out a normal walk cycle of the legs, and then adding tweening to the animation with extra exaggeration to show Bill’s prideful personality with a bit of sassiness. I then added his triangle body, tilting a bit back to express confidence like a puffed out chest. I finished by adding the arms and legs, which both a had a delayed swing and bounce.

The assignment requested that the walk cycle have a ‘surprise ending,’ which I decided would be Bill Cipher floating off-screen like he normally would. The ending and beginning parts were the easiest to animate.