How to make a drunk walk animation in Blender

Normal walk and drunk walk

Same rig, same add-on, only the state differs. Top row: Normal. Bottom row: Drunk. Six phases of one step cycle, seen from the front

Normal

Drunk

We measured both clips on a 1.83 m character: the drunk walk sways the pelvis about 14 cm from side to side against about 6 cm in a normal walk, moves at 0.8 m/s against 1.2 m/s, and one step cycle takes 1.25 s against 1.0 s

Step by step

1. STEP 1Create a character

   Select your rig (Rigify, Mixamo, VRoid, Unreal or any humanoid) and press Create character. No rig? Shift+A › Moveset Mannequin

2. STEP 2Add the Drunk state

   In the State box press +, pick Drunk. Walk, idle and the state's habitual actions appear

3. STEP 3Play

   Choose Walk and press Play. The preview runs live on your character

4. STEP 4Tune it

   Move the sliders for stride, tempo, posture or sway, or mix Drunk with another state, for example Weary

5. STEP 5Bake

   Bake this one: you get an Action called walk_drunk. Bake all adds the idle and every action in that state

Not only the walk

A state colours every action. A drunk character waves, drinks, points and turns with the same loose, uneven timing, and the state comes with its own habitual actions: staggering, hiccupping, dizzy. Add the state once and use it across the whole library

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