Animate a Professional Looking Walk in Autodesk Maya

Animate a Professional Looking Walk in Autodesk Maya, available at $44.99, has an average rating of 4.45, with 22 lectures, based on 70 reviews, and has 438 subscribers.

You will learn about Animate a professional looking walk in Autodesk Maya Work with video references Identify and design the key poses of a walk Mirror poses quickly and effortlessly Solid character posing Understand weight shifts in locomotion Make the character walk through space without sliding feet Splining and polishing workflows for professional animation Work with animation layers to add details and variations Fix knee pops and intersections 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 Walk in Autodesk Maya

Price: $44.99

Average Rating: 4.45

Number of Lectures: 22

Number of Published Lectures: 22

Number of Curriculum Items: 22

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 22

Original Price: $29.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Animate a professional looking walk in Autodesk Maya
Work with video references
Identify and design the key poses of a walk
Mirror poses quickly and effortlessly
Solid character posing
Understand weight shifts in locomotion
Make the character walk through space without sliding feet
Splining and polishing workflows for professional animation
Work with animation layers to add details and variations
Fix knee pops and intersections

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!

Walks are the base of human locomotion, and the foundation for advanced animation. Mastering walk cycles in 3D animation gives you the confidence and skills to control your human characters in more articulated acted scenes.

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

At the end of this course you will be able to confidently animate walk cycles, 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 walk
Troubleshooting posing
Mirroring poses both manually and employing easy to use custom tools
Understanding weight shifts in locomotion
Controlling the stride
Fixing sliding feet
Setting up priorities for splining
Animation splining and polishing workflows
Working with animation layers to add details and variations
Fixing knee pops and intersections
Making the character move through space

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: Planning ahead

Lecture 1: Workflow Breakdown

Lecture 2: Understanding the story behind a walk

Lecture 3: Looking for references, setting up rig and scene, planning ahead

Chapter 2: First pass blocking of walk poses and smart pose mirroring

Lecture 1: The contact pose

Lecture 2: Understanding pose mirroring in 3D space

Lecture 3: Automatic pose mirroring

Lecture 4: Blocking out the up pose

Lecture 5: Weight and hip: the down pose

Lecture 6: Controlling the stride

Lecture 7: Tweaking the blocking: the passing pose

Chapter 3: Splining workflow

Lecture 1: Fixing sliding feet in 3D animation

Lecture 2: Splining and clean up for core body motion

Lecture 3: Continuity in looping curves

Lecture 4: Animating the Hip Swing

Lecture 5: Splining & Clean Up for Spine and Head

Lecture 6: Cleaning Up the Arm Swings

Lecture 7: Clean Up of Feet From Side and 3D View

Lecture 8: Tracking feet from the front view and mirroring legs animation

Chapter 4: Polishing and finessing

Lecture 1: Knee Polishing, IK Knee Pops, Intersections

Lecture 2: Polishing, Mood, and Details through Animation Layers

Lecture 3: Fingers Tweaks & Making the Character Walk Through Space

Chapter 5: My animation files

Lecture 1: Maya Animation Files

Instructors

Amedeo Beretta
Animation Director/ Tutor

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