# How to Animate a 3D Walking Character - Spline 101 | Build Your First Interactive Scene - Spline Academy (https://spline.design/academy/tutorials/how-to-animate-a-3d-walking-character)

> 🚶Learn how to bring a character to life by animating a walk cycle using Spline!

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# How to Animate a 3D Walking Character

Lesson 12 of 16Spline 3DBeginner14 min

🚶Learn how to bring a character to life by animating a walk cycle using Spline!

We’ll dive into key concepts like states, events, and transitions, while I guide you step-by-step through creating basic leg and arm movements. You’ll also learn how to add personality to your character with bounces, micro animations, and mix with game controls so the walking motion responds to user interaction.

Discover how you can also import pre-animated characters into Spline by watching this tutorial 👉 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpYK67LQItI>

## What you’ll learn

1. [0:00Intro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g4XnfmD0tg&t=0s)
2. [0:30Understanding States and Events](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g4XnfmD0tg&t=30s)
3. [1:37Creating a Walking Cycle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g4XnfmD0tg&t=97s)
4. [7:03Adding Personality with Bounce and Micro Animations](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g4XnfmD0tg&t=423s)
5. [8:32Incorporating Game Controls for Walking Simulation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g4XnfmD0tg&t=512s)
6. [13:14Importing Pre-animated Characters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g4XnfmD0tg&t=794s)

## Related resources

- [Simple Walking loopTemplate](https://app.spline.design/academy/tutorials/how-to-animate-a-3d-walking-character?redirect-duplicate-template-uuid=29d00bb0-3cc6-460c-96c0-b8db32c2a0a5&is-2d-file=false)
- [How state-based animation worksDocument](https://docs.spline.design/interaction-states-events-and-actions/how-state-based-animation-works)
- [Moving the Object PivotDocument](https://docs.spline.design/designing-in-3-d/moving-the-object-pivot)
- [Game Controls EventDocument](https://docs.spline.design/interaction-states-events-and-actions/events/game-controls-event)
- [Transition ActionDocument](https://docs.spline.design/interaction-states-events-and-actions/actions/transition-action)

## Overview

- Spline 3D
- 14 min
- Beginner

## Up next

[Build a 3D Voxel Character13 minBeginner](https://spline.design/academy/collections/spline-101-build-your-first-interactive-scene/build-a-3d-voxel-character)[Continue](https://spline.design/academy/collections/spline-101-build-your-first-interactive-scene/build-a-3d-voxel-character)

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