Learning Character Animation
Release date:2013, December 12
Duration:03 h 32 m
Author:George Maestri
Skill level:Beginner
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
The fundamentals of great character animation are rooted in posing your model in a way that reads true, animating from pose to pose to mimic natural movement, and simulating convincing dialogue. Start here to learn the skills all beginning animators need to know to bring their characters to life, regardless of software or style. Author and animator George Maestri first teaches you how to position your model and create realistic poses that tell stories and consider balance and weight. Next, you’ll take those poses and animate between them in what’s called pose-to-pose animation. Then you’ll get your character moving in a basic walk cycle, add expression to the face, and incorporate dialogue. Finally, you’ll learn how to tie all the fundamentals together in a scene complete with pose-to-pose animation and dialogue.
Topics include:
Telling stories through posing
Creating a strong line of action in poses
Animating seating to standing poses
Adding anticipation and follow-through
Making your character walk
Animating the head and face
Animating basic phonemes
Animating a scene
01 – Welcome
02 – About the course
03 – Maya rig overview
04 – CINEMA 4D rig overview
05 – Telling stories through posing
06 – Balance and symmetry in poses
07 – Creating strong lines of action in poses
08 – Silhouetting and flow
09 – Sequencing poses
10 – Timing the blocking pass
11 – Shifting weight and arcs
12 – Adding anticipation and follow-through
13 – Animating a character from seated to standing – Creating the main poses
14 – Animating a character from seated to standing – Adding secondary motion
15 – Basics of a two-legged walk
16 – Basic leg placement
17 – Adding lower body poses
18 – Adding in upper body motion
19 – Arms and hands
20 – Animating the head
21 – Animating blinks
22 – Head turns and head motion
23 – Basics of facial expression
24 – Animating changes of expression
25 – Understanding phonemes
26 – Animating vowel phonemes – A, E, and I
27 – Animating vowel phonemes – O, U, and Y
28 – Animating consonant phonemes – B, T, and S
29 – Animating consonant phonemes – M, F, and L
30 – Animating dialogue – Lip sync
31 – Animating dialogue – Body motion
32 – Blocking out main poses
33 – Timing poses and adding holds
34 – Animating weight and balance
35 – Adding secondary motion
36 – Animating dialogue
37 – Finalizing the scene
38 – Goodbye
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