Join George Maestri for an in-depth discussion in this video About the course, part of Learning Character Animation.
This course is a foundations course, which means that it teaches the principles of animation, regardless of software. The course is not software specific. So we're going to actually present the material in an interface that is generic, and looks something like this. Now we will be providing you with rigs that you can use in your favorite software. Now these rigs look identical regardless of software, so you should be able to use those rigs to animate your own material or to follow along.
And hopefully the material that we present will be applicable to any rig or any character that you choose to animate.
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Released
12/20/2013- 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
Skill Level Beginner
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 2s
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About the course40s
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Maya rig overview8m 19s
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CINEMA 4D rig overview6m 37s
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1. Posing Characters
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Silhouetting and flow5m 27s
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Sequencing poses4m 55s
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2. Creating Pose-to-Pose Animation
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Timing the blocking pass3m 34s
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Shifting weight and arcs6m 29s
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3. Basics of Walks
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Basics of a two-legged walk1m 48s
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Basic leg placement4m 51s
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Adding lower body poses5m 4s
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Adding in upper body motion4m 33s
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Arms and hands7m 13s
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Animating the head3m 36s
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4. Facial Animation
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Animating blinks5m 35s
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Head turns and head motion7m 17s
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Basics of facial expression5m 21s
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5. Basics of Dialogue
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Understanding phonemes3m 41s
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Animating dialogue: Lip sync5m 58s
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6. Animating a Scene
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Blocking out main poses3m 26s
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Animating weight and balance7m 25s
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Adding secondary motion8m 46s
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Animating dialogue5m 49s
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Finalizing the scene8m 54s
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Conclusion
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Goodbye28s
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