Overview
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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.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- About the course
- Maya rig overview
- CINEMA 4D rig overview
- Telling stories through posing
- Balance and symmetry in poses
- Creating strong lines of action in poses
- Silhouetting and flow
- Sequencing poses
- Timing the blocking pass
- Shifting weight and arcs
- Adding anticipation and follow-through
- Animating a character from seated to standing: Creating the main poses
- Animating a character from seated to standing: Adding secondary motion
- Basics of a two-legged walk
- Basic leg placement
- Adding lower body poses
- Adding in upper body motion
- Arms and hands
- Animating the head
- Animating blinks
- Head turns and head motion
- Basics of facial expression
- Animating changes of expression
- Understanding phonemes
- Animating vowel phonemes: A, E, and I
- Animating vowel phonemes: O, U, and Y
- Animating consonant phonemes: B, T, and S
- Animating consonant phonemes: M, F, and L
- Animating dialogue: Lip sync
- Animating dialogue: Body motion
- Blocking out main poses
- Timing poses and adding holds
- Animating weight and balance
- Adding secondary motion
- Animating dialogue
- Finalizing the scene
- Goodbye
