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Become a 3D Character Animator

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Overview

Channel your creativity and technical savvy to breathe life into simple characters as a 3D character animator. Learn to apply the basic principles of animation and the processes used by professionals to model, rig, and animate characters in digital environments.
  • Apply storytelling principles through animation.
  • Design, rig, and animate characters in Maya.
  • Discover best practices from experts in 3D animation.

Syllabus

  • Course 1: Learning Character Animation
    • Learn all the skills you need to know to bring your first characters to life, including posing to the camera, animating from pose to pose, walking basics, and dialogue.
  • Course 2: Maya 2019 Essential Training
    • Get the essential training you need to create high-quality 3D models and animations in Maya 2019. Learn core Maya skills such as modeling, texturing, rendering, and animation.
  • Course 3: Character Animation: Locomotion
    • Learn how to create walk, run, and skip animations that give your character style and subtly move the story along.
  • Course 4: Character Animation: Dialogue
    • Learn how to convey emotion through facial expression, and animate dialogue, with these fundamental animation principles.
  • Course 5: Modeling a Cartoon Character in Maya
    • Learn how to use Maya to model a simple cartoon character that can be later rigged and animated in the program of your choice.
  • Course 6: Rigging a Cartoon Character in Maya
    • Add squash and stretch to a rig in Maya, using techniques specific to cartoon characters: stretchy joints, IK/FK switching, and facial rigging.
  • Course 7: Animating Cartoon Characters in Maya
    • Teaches simple steps to creating exaggerated cartoon animation in Maya, using principles such as squash and stretch, exaggeration, follow-through, and overlapping action.
  • Course 8: Chris Landreth: Oscar-Winning Animation Director
    • An interview with Chris Landreth, a pioneering animator and director of the Oscar-winning animated short Ryan.
  • Course 9: Maya: nHair
    • Learn to create, style, animate, and render realistic hair with Maya nHair.

Taught by

George Maestri, George Maestri, George Maestri, George Maestri, George Maestri, George Maestri, George Maestri, Chris Landreth and Aaron F. Ross

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