What is much more common is the "pivot-step", where the character bases their weight on one leg, and swings the other either forward or backwards from the hips. This is generally used simultaneously to move quickly and to generate power for an attack or a block.
This tutorial will focus on executing a pivot-step animation as simply
and effectively as possible. In all likelihood, you will end up animating
an awful lot of these if you make a martial arts animation, so we want
to make them as quick and painless as they can be.
Dabble Tutorial (Zipped
file of Dabble Tutorial)
Page 1: Positioning the Patriarch
Page 2: Linear Interpolation
Page 3: Rotating the Patriarch