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Creature Animation. Animate a realistic Panther walk. Includes polishing!

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Creature Animation. Animate a realistic Panther walk. Includes polishing!

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About Creature Animation. Animate a realistic Panther walk. Includes polishing!

Introduction

Working with references

Gearing up. Having the tools at hand

Setting up the project

Setting up the rig

Animating the hips and hind leg

Animating the chest

Posing the front legs

Designing a pose for head and tail

Splining the spine

Splining the legs

Splining the head

Animating the tail

Mirror the animation and wrap up

To render or not to render

What You Will Learn?

  • Learn efficient 3D animation workflows by delivering professional looking creature animation in the form of a Panther Walk, in Autodesk Maya..
  • This course is designed for intermediate 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..
  • You can learn to render your animation in Unreal Engine from this series of tutorials from my Youtube Channel..