iAnimate game animation workshop Group-Buy announcement

Hello everyone, today we have good news to share! As you already knew, after … we were planning to do group buys for another schools and today we’re starting another group buy for IANIMATE animation workshops. The first ones we are getting are iAnimate game animation workshops. First we’re buying 2 game workshops (1 – Animation and Game Principles and 2 – Advance Body Mechanics and Workflows). We’ll also get feature animation workshops but we’ll start with this first. Strawberry is working on a forum so don’t worry it will arrive eventually but for now, we’re doing this through telegram like the previous group buys. For payment details join our telegram group for 3d characters and animation.

Price for each course is 200$. So the total budget for this workshop is 800$.

Hope you’ll like this initiative to continue our group buy project and bring new and unique courses to hundreds and thousands of people around the globe.

These workshops will present a focused study of 3D animation for the game industry and it’s specific needs. They will consist of multiple live talks, demos, reviews and assignments that would resemble an actual production pipeline. Read our write up titled ‘Overview Between Game Animation and Feature Animation‘

Animation and Game Principles

This workshop is an entry level class, introducing character animation for video games in Maya. Only basic knowledge of animation in Maya is required for this workshop, fundamentals in-game insights will be integrated along the way to get you ready for our main program.

Our four workshop program is pretty challenging and that’s exactly what we intended. We’ll fill your mind with a great amount of technical knowledge and work really hard on your artistic skills with many assignment. iAnimate Games students greatly benefits from this approach, we tend to push them further more then they think they can go, make them progress much faster than they expected. This approach also prepares you well for the reality of the industry. That being said there’s a difference between being pushed hard and being completely overwhelmed. That’s why we’ve created a new introduction workshop for less experienced animators, making sure we give them all the tools and knowledge they need to hit the ground running when enrolling into the program.

• Week 1: Introduction to animation and games
• Week 2: Graph Editor, Constraints and Baking
• Week 3: Animation theory
• Week 4: Techniques for animation and games
• Week 5: Character animation
• Week 6: Reference
• Week 7: Animation Planning and Process for In-Games
• Week 8: Blocking and starting
• Week 9: Spine Pass
• Week 10: Advance Constraining with Animation and Engine
• Week 11: Camera Setup, Basic Lighting and Rendering

Advance Body Mechanics and Workflows

This workshop focus on advance body mechanics, actions and reactions performances, that are needed to give the player exciting feedback responsiveness, foundations of core gameplay and the everyday practices on designing a characters animation system.

This workshop focus on advance body mechanics, actions and reactions performances,  that are needed to give the player exciting feedback responsiveness, foundations of core gameplay and the everyday practices on designing a characters animation system.

• • Week 1: Posing for Games : What is a strong pose
  • Week 2: Trimming reference for games.
  • Week 3: Animation Theories and Game Design – Weight, Timing, Spacing
  • Week 4: Instructors Workflow
  • Week 5: Foundation Part 1 – Direction & Collisions Nodes
  • Week 6: Navigation / Locomotion
  • Week 7: Turns on spot, Transition
  • Week 8: Cover system
  • Week 9: Dynamic Motions, Dodging, Blocks
  • Week 10: Interaction with environment and game objects
  • Week 11: Hit Reactions and Deaths