Animate a professional looking jump in Autodesk Maya

Animate a professional looking jump in Autodesk Maya, available at $59.99, has an average rating of 4.9, with 32 lectures, based on 62 reviews, and has 369 subscribers.

You will learn about Animate a professional looking jump in Autodesk Maya Work with video references for animation Identify and design the key poses of a jump Mirror poses quickly and effortlessly with Studio Library Solid character posing Understand weight shifts in locomotion Learn to work with custom animation tools in Maya Understand space switching Splining and polishing workflows for professional animation This course is ideal for individuals who are 3D animators of all levels who want to deliver professional looking animation or Beginner 3D animators who struggle to deliver convincing locomotion animations or Beginner 3D animators who want to learn efficient workflows to animate human characters or Anyone who wants to have some fun animating a nice character! It is particularly useful for 3D animators of all levels who want to deliver professional looking animation or Beginner 3D animators who struggle to deliver convincing locomotion animations or Beginner 3D animators who want to learn efficient workflows to animate human characters or Anyone who wants to have some fun animating a nice character!.

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Summary

Title: Animate a professional looking jump in Autodesk Maya

Price: $59.99

Average Rating: 4.9

Number of Lectures: 32

Number of Published Lectures: 32

Number of Curriculum Items: 32

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 32

Original Price: $29.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Animate a professional looking jump in Autodesk Maya
Work with video references for animation
Identify and design the key poses of a jump
Mirror poses quickly and effortlessly with Studio Library
Solid character posing
Understand weight shifts in locomotion
Learn to work with custom animation tools in Maya
Understand space switching
Splining and polishing workflows for professional animation

Who Should Attend

3D animators of all levels who want to deliver professional looking animation
Beginner 3D animators who struggle to deliver convincing locomotion animations
Beginner 3D animators who want to learn efficient workflows to animate human characters
Anyone who wants to have some fun animating a nice character!

Target Audiences

3D animators of all levels who want to deliver professional looking animation
Beginner 3D animators who struggle to deliver convincing locomotion animations
Beginner 3D animators who want to learn efficient workflows to animate human characters
Anyone who wants to have some fun animating a nice character!

Jumps are one of the key blocks of human locomotion, and the foundation for advanced body mechanics. Mastering jumps in 3D animation gives you the confidence and skills to control your human characters in more articulated body mechanics scenes.

Learn professional 3D animation workflows while animating a high quality jump. You only need a trial copy of Maya!

At the end of this course you will be able to confidently animate human jumps, interpret reference footage for animation, and adopt the same techniques professionals employ to produce industry standard animations.

You will learn about:

Working with video references
Identifying and designing the key poses of a jump
Troubleshooting posing
Mirroring poses employing easy to use custom tools
Converting animation space
Understanding weight shifts in locomotion
Setting up priorities for splining
Animation splining and polishing workflows

The course will employ industry standard software Autodesk Maya, but the same workflows can be applied to any 3D package.

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Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Planning Ahead

Lecture 1: Understanding the Story Behind a Jump

Lecture 2: Working with video references for animation

Lecture 3: Thumbnails: sketching the poses

Lecture 4: Converting the Sketches to Maya's Grease Pencil Drawings

Lecture 5: Setting Up the Rig

Chapter 3: Blocking

Lecture 1: Weight, Balance, and Line of Action for Animation

Lecture 2: Understanding Eyelines

Lecture 3: Creating Appealing Hand Poses

Lecture 4: Mirroring Poses with Studio Library

Lecture 5: Designing Appealing Facial Expressions

Lecture 6: The Anticipation Pose

Lecture 7: Posing the Face in the Anticipation

Lecture 8: The Contact Pose

Lecture 9: The Kick-Off Pose

Lecture 10: Understanding Parent Space and Space Conversion

Lecture 11: The Up Pose

Lecture 12: The Follow-Through Pose

Lecture 13: The Down Pose

Lecture 14: A Bit of Re-timing and Tweaks

Lecture 15: Floaty Splining? Add Breakdowns!

Lecture 16: Breakdowns Leading to and from the Anticipation

Lecture 17: The Left Contact

Lecture 18: Blocking the Follow-Through Motion

Chapter 4: Splining

Lecture 1: Preparing the Rig for Splining

Lecture 2: Splining the Torso

Lecture 3: Splining Neck and Head

Lecture 4: Splining the Arms

Lecture 5: Splining the Legs

Chapter 5: Polishing

Lecture 1: Tweaking Face and Fingers Animation

Lecture 2: Tweaking the Arcs and Preparing for Playblast

Lecture 3: Embellishing the Playblast

Instructors

Amedeo Beretta
Animation Director/ Tutor

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