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Animate a Professional Looking Walk in Maya. Includes polishing!

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Animate a Professional Looking Walk in Maya. Includes polishing!

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About Animate a Professional Looking Walk in Maya. Includes polishing!

Introduction

Workflow Breakdown

The Story Behind a Walk

Planning Ahead: References and Rig Set Up

The Contact Pose

Understanding Pose Mirroring in 3D Space

Automatic Pose Mirroring

Working With Video Reference: The Up Pose

Weight and Hip Swing: The Down Pose

Controlling the Stride

Tweaking the Blocking: The Passing Pose

Fixing Sliding Feet in 3D Animation

Splining the Core Body Motion

Continuity in Looping Curves

Animating the Hip Swing

Splining & Clean Up for Spine and Head

Cleaning Up the Arm Swings

Clean Up of Feet From Side and 3D View

Tracking Feet From the Front View & Mirroring Legs Animation

Knee Polishing, IK Knee Pops, Intersections

Polishing, Mood, and Details through Animation Layers

Tweaking fingers motion and making the character walk through space

What You Will Learn?

  • Hi, my name is Amedeo, I animate in production and teach students and professional since the year 2003..
  • Learn efficient 3D animation workflows by delivering a professional looking, polished female walk in Autodesk Maya..
  • This course is designed for beginner animators who understand the basics of the workflow but struggle to give their animation that level of quality and believability typical of professional products..
  • Walks are 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..
  • 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..
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  • The course will employ industry standard software Autodesk Maya, but the same workflows can be applied to any 3D package..
  • Download Autodesk Maya Fully Featured Free Trial here..