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Animate a professional looking jump in Autodesk Maya
Learn professional 3D animation workflows by animating and delivering a high quality human jump in Autodesk Maya
Created byAmedeo Beretta
Last updated 4/2021
English
What you'll 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
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Course content
5 sections • 32 lectures • 4h 32m total length
Requirements
- Be able to navigate Maya's viewport
- Be able to set keys on the timeline
- Understand the basics of Maya's Graph Editor
- To know that animation layers exist in Maya
Description
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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Who this course is for:
- 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!