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Animate an Anime Inspired, Stylized Female Run in Autodesk Maya.
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About Animate an Anime Inspired, Stylized Female Run in Autodesk Maya.
Intro & Preview: Animate an anime inspired, stylized female run animation in Autodesk Maya.
Finding References
The Story of a Run
Identifying the Essential Poses of a Run
Setting Up the Project and Finding a Rig
Working With Video References
Setting Up Maya for Animation
Setting Up the Rig
Designing the Run Contact Pose
Mirroring Poses With Red9 Studio
Mirroring the Contact Pose
Improving the Contact Pose
Giving the Face a Bit of Emotion
Setting the Viewport Evaluation Mode to DG
Blocking With Stepped Tangents? Not Exactly.
Blocking Strategy The Tangents
Tracking the References
Devising the Kickoff Pose
Why It Is Important To Set a Key on All Controls for a Pose During Blocking
Designing the Up Pose
Designing the Down Pose
Writing Animation Notes to Yourself
Addressing Our Own Notes
Evaluating the Run Animation So Far
Troubleshooting From the Front View
Reducing the Head Ups and Downs
Introducing Back and Forth Body Motion
Troubleshooting the Face Animation
Watching the Animation on Twos
Make the Character Run Through Space
Splining the Body Animation
032 Restoring Some of the Heads Ups and Down
Splining the Feet
Copying the Foot Animation to the Opposite Side
Splining the Arms
Tweaking the Splining
Cleaning IK Pops
Conclusion and Outro
What You Will Learn?
- Learn efficient 3D animation workflows by delivering a professional looking, anime inspired, stylized female run animation 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..
- Together with walks and jumps, runs are one of the key blocks of body mechanics animation. Mastering those essential movements in 3D animation gives you the confidence and skills to control your human characters in more articulated body mechanics shots..
- At the end of this course you will be able to confidently animate a stylized run, interpret reference footage for animation, and adopt the same techniques professionals employ to produce industry standard animations..
- You will learn about:.
- The course will employ industry standard software Autodesk Maya, but the same principles can be applied to any 3D package. You can find more tutorials on my Youtube channel..
- Download Autodesk Maya Fully Featured Free Trial here..