Creature Animation. Animate a realistic Panther walk. Includes polishing!

Focused View

Amedeo Beretta

2:59:44

8 View

01 Introduction.mp4

01:19

02 Working with references.mp4

14:39

03 Gearing up. Having the tools at hand.mp4

15:11

04 Setting up the project.mp4

04:53

05 Setting up the rig.mp4

14:57

06 Animating the hips and hind leg.mp4

25:27

07 Animating the chest.mp4

07:02

08 Posing the front legs.mp4

16:12

09 Designing a pose for head and tail.mp4

03:22

10 Splining the spine.mp4

27:10

11 Splining the legs.mp4

25:02

12 Splining the head.mp4

06:09

13 Animating the tail.mp4

05:55

14 Mirror the animation and wrap up.mp4

12:26

ab stalkercamtool.zip

insertkey.zip

panther videoreference frames.zip.zip

titlebar.zip

Description

Learn efficient 3D animation workflows by delivering professional looking creature animation in the form of a Panther Walk, in Autodesk Maya.

This course is designed for intermediate animators who understand the basics of the workflow but struggle to give their animation that level of quality and believability typical of professional products.

Together 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

The course will employ industry standard software Autodesk Maya, but the same principles can be applied to any 3D package. You can find more tutorials on my Youtube channel.

Download Autodesk Maya Fully Featured Free Trial here.

You can learn to render your animation in Unreal Engine from this series of tutorials from my Youtube Channel.

What You'll Learn?

Animation
Video Games
Maya
Creative
Maya 3D
Creature Animation
3d Animation In Maya

More details

User Reviews

Rating

average 0

Total votes0

Focused display

3D Animation

Character Animation

Amedeo Beretta

Instructor's Courses

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!

SkillShare

View courses SkillShare

Skillshare is an online learning community based in the United States for people who want to learn from educational videos. The courses, which are not accredited, are only available through paid subscription.