Animate an Anime Inspired, Stylized Female Run Animation in Autodesk Maya

On July 2, 2021

Release date:2021

Author:Amedeo Beretta

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

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.ogether 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:

Working with video references
Identifying and designing the key poses of a run
Troubleshooting posing
Mirroring poses using Red Studio 9
Setting up priorities for splining
Animation splining and polishing workflows

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01 Intro & Preview Animate an anime inspired, stylized female run animation in Autodesk Maya
02 Finding References
03 The Story of a Run
04 Identifying the Essential Poses of a Run
05 Setting Up the Project and Finding a Rig
06 Working With Video References
07 Setting Up Maya for Animation
08 Setting Up the Rig
09 Designing the Run Contact Pose
10 Mirroring Poses With Red9 Studio
11 Mirroring the Contact Pose
12 Improving the Contact Pose
13 Giving the Face a Bit of Emotion
14 Setting the Viewport Evaluation Mode to DG
15 Blocking With Stepped Tangents Not Exactly
16 Blocking Strategy The Tangents
17 Tracking the References
18 Devising the Kickoff Pose
19 Why It Is Important To Set a Key on All Controls for a Pose During Blocking
20 Designing the Up Pose
21 Designing the Down Pose
22 Writing Animation Notes to Yourself
23 Addressing Our Own Notes
24 Evaluating the Run Animation So Far
25 Troubleshooting From the Front View
26 Reducing the Head Ups and Downs
27 Introducing Back and Forth Body Motion
28 Troubleshooting the Face Animation
29 Watching the Animation on Twos
30 Make the Character Run Through Space
31 Splining the Body Animation
32 032 Restoring Some of the Heads Ups and Down
33 Splining the Feet
34 Copying the Foot Animation to the Opposite Side
35 Splining the Arms
36 Tweaking the Splining
37 Cleaning IK Pops
38 Conclusion and Outro