Animate a Professional Looking Walk in Maya. Includes polishing!

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Amedeo Beretta

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01 Introduction.mp4

01:45

02 Workflow Breakdown.mp4

02:23

03 The Story Behind a Walk.mp4

04:16

04 Planning Ahead References and Rig Set Up.mp4

06:45

05 The Contact Pose.mp4

08:30

06 Understanding Pose Mirroring in 3D Space.mp4

07:20

07 Automatic Pose Mirroring.mp4

02:49

08 Working With Video Reference The Up Pose.mp4

07:59

09 Weight and Hip Swing The Down Pose.mp4

06:31

10 Controlling the Stride.mp4

05:18

11 Tweaking the Blocking The Passing Pose.mp4

20:53

12 Fixing Sliding Feet in 3D Animation.mp4

08:48

13 Splining the Core Body Motion.mp4

13:18

14 Continuity in Looping Curves.mp4

03:10

15 Animating the Hip Swing.mp4

13:20

16 Splining & Clean Up for Spine and Head.mp4

13:42

17 Cleaning Up the Arm Swings.mp4

05:21

18 Clean Up of Feet From Side and 3D View.mp4

11:11

19 Tracking Feet From the Front View & Mirroring Legs Animation.mp4

08:22

20 Knee Polishing, IK Knee Pops, Intersections.mp4

05:47

21 Polishing, Mood, and Details through Animation Layers.mp4

12:13

22 Tweaking fingers motion and making the character walk through space.mp4

07:19

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Description

Hi, my name is Amedeo, I animate in production and teach students and professional since the year 2003.

Learn efficient 3D animation workflows by delivering a professional looking, polished female walk 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.

Walks are the foundation for advanced animation. Mastering walk cycles in 3D animation gives you the confidence and skills to control your human characters in more articulated acted scenes.

At the end of this course you will be able to confidently animate walk cycles, 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 walk
Troubleshooting posing
Mirroring poses both manually and employing easy to use custom tools
Understanding weight shifts in locomotion
Controlling the stride
Fixing sliding feet
Setting up priorities for splining
Animation splining and polishing workflows
Working with animation layers to add details and variations
Fixing knee pops and intersections
Making the character move through space

The course will employ industry standard software Autodesk Maya, but the same workflows can be applied to any 3D package.

Download Autodesk Maya Fully Featured Free Trial here.

What You'll Learn?

Animation
3D Animation
Polish
Maya
Creative
Maya Foundation
Walk Animation

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Amedeo Beretta

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Hi, my name is Amedeo Beretta and I animate in production and teach students and professionals since the year 2003. I worked on VFX and full CGI features, series, TV ADs, Video Games and promotional videos.

I am specialized in character animation, but I started off as a generalist, developing skills in concept art, 3D modelling, texturing, rigging, shading, rendering, and compositing.

My credits include Paul, John Carter, and Planet 51, feature work performed at award-winning companies like Double Negative, Scanline VFX, and Ilion Animation Studios.

Head over to my Youtube channel to see more of my work!

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