What is this? Well, this is the first course from the Odd Spirits of Z project, which is a series of fast-paced courses focusing on a specific…
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Chris Landreth broke out with his Oscar-winning animated short, Ryan. Now he conducts research on facial expressions and body language and helps a brand-new generation of animators…
Get tried and true techniques for creating, styling, animating, and rendering hair with nHair in Autodesk Maya. Aaron F. Ross will show you how to prepare your…
Now that you’ve rigged your characters, it’s time to make them move. Starting from where Modeling a Cartoon Character in Maya left off, George Maestri teaches five…
Cartoon characters are known for their exaggerated movement, often created by squashing and stretching the character. In this course, George Maestri shows how to add cartoony squash…
Learn how to model a simple cartoon character in Maya, and get the skills to create your own cartoon creatures, great and small. In this course, author…
Facial animation makes your character’s inner life shine through. This course—focused on the principles, not the tools, of animation—explores how anatomy, expression, and emotion intertwine, and how…
Getting characters to walk is one thing; adding character to a walk is another. But it’s not impossible and it’s not software specific. In fact, the locomotion…
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,…
Are you looking to add something extra to your Animate CC projects? After Effects offers camera motion; special effects such as fractal fog, motion blur, and glow;…
Are you good with your hands, but were always afraid to start the digital drawing process? This course is for you! I explain everything and help you…
Retopology is a fun combination of artistry and technique. Characters that are sculpted in programs like ZBrush or Mudbox are usually too dense to animate correctly. Retopology…