Building a walk animation

Hi all,
I'm trying for first time to make a walk animations in Poser.

First question is for Poser users: do you use Walk Designer or normal key frames? WD seems so easy but results are not what i want and changing some parameter makes the figure move weirdly.

Making the walk from scratch I'm noticing I've no method to follow, and here I need suggestions!
I made the first kf (second actually), then gone to the middle of the anim and did a complete Swap Left/Right, then gone at the end of anim and replicate the first one.
Now i planned to "correct" the frame in between rising a leg more, moving foot position, etc...Manually and when/where needed.
After a while my frame map is a sort of battleground and the figure, even if moving in a human way, still doesn't move really good. For example it has no more a simmetric movement.

I wish limitate manual frames to the minimum and leave the rest to interpolation, and when I'll have the move i want play with FPS for slow it down or accelerate it.

Any of you could give me a method to follow to limitate efforts and errors?

Thank you very much

Hi Alina,

I don't think the walk designer is very useful for SL work. It is more useful when you want to make a specific walk path and no use for something that will be used in an ao.

Most walks in SL are based on the walks you can find in the Poser library. Generally, they are modifications made to the basic walk, or one of the special ones, like the sexy walk. Just open one up with the SL figure and amend it to create the walk you want.

You can key frame them from scratch, of course, but it is a lot of work and there is no point in re-inventing poses which are standard library ones. Walks are quite complex movements that involve all the joints and you will need a lot of key frames if you go this route - about every other frame, I would expect.

Thank you Deira,

I'd look for Poses folder in the library, right? And I'll start from there to customize it.