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The first step is to create a stationary walk cycle. There are no real frame limits. Use a character such as this walking baby. Make sure that you develop a full cycle, meaning that your character must do two steps. Once it completed, you are ready to make the character cross the screen!

1. Click the Add Peg Element button.
   
   
2. Drag your character element over the peg to connect it.
   
   

Once your character is connected to your peg, you will need to create a motion path that will go from left-to-right or right-to-left depending on your animation.

1. Select the Motion Tool from Sceneplanning Tools toolbar.
   
   
2. Drag the last keyframe to the left or the right while holding [Shift].

   A motion path will appear.

   
3. Run through your animation a few times and see if your character’s feet are sliding on the ground.
   
   
4. If they are sliding you must adjust the length of the motion path until it looks like the feet are no longer sliding.

Once the adjustments are done, you are ready to start repeating your cycle.

The next step is to repeat the hand drawn animation several times so that there are enough frames for the character to cross the screen.

1. In the Timeline View, right click the first empty cell of your hand-drawn animation and select Create Advanced Cycle.
   
   
   

   The Advanced Cycle window opens. This contains two windows, one for the First Drawing and one for the Last Drawing. Make sure that both drawings are correct. If you want to change the drawing, simply use the slider or enter the name of the cell in the specified text box.

   
   
2. Next, select the number of times you want the cycle to repeat.
   • None: If you don’t want the cycle to repeat.
   • Continuous: If you want the cycle to restart with the first drawing on each loop.
     For example, if you create two continuous drawing loops for drawings-2-3, the resulting loop would be: 1-2-3-1-2-3.
   • Forward-Backward: If you want to restart the loop with the previous drawing.
     For example, if you create 2 forward-backward loops with drawings 1-2-3, the resulting loop would be: 1-2-3-2-1-2-3-2.
   
   
   
3. Type the number of times you want the cycle repeat in the Loops field.
   If you want to repeat the cycle for a specific number of frames, type a value in the Frames field.
   In this example, the baby walk will loop 5 times.
   
   
   
4. Click on OK to close the window and go back to your work.

If you browse through your animation, you will now see that the character will move from left to right only during the first cycle. After, it will be stationary again. You can change this by using the Change Loops option.

1. First you must select the first empty cell next to the last peg keyframe in the timeline.
   
   
2. Right-click and select Change Loops.
   
   
   
3. Enter the number of loops you wish to create.
   
   In this example we created 6 loops.
   
   
   
4. Click on OK to close the window and go back to your work.

If at the end of your animation, you notice that the peg loops do not fit with your hand drawn animation. This can easily be corrected by dragging the end of the peg sequence up to the same frame as your animation.

You can now play your animation to see the result!

Your character should now walk all the way to the end of your motion path.

• Using the Select tool from the Sceneplanning Tools toolbar, click on the motion path and move the it until your are satisfied with its position and the result.
  

• The Create Advanced Cycle option is specifically used to repeat drawing cells.
• The Change Loops option is used to repeat a selected section of a peg.
• Repeating a peg will not create copies of your drawing cells, it will only repeat the Motion Path.
• Use both options together to save time and effort.

Good luck!