3D Walk Cycle Animation using Autodesk Maya

3D Walk Cycle Animation using Autodesk Maya, available at $39.99, has an average rating of 4.71, with 37 lectures, based on 7 reviews, and has 26 subscribers.

You will learn about How to animate a human walk cycle in 3D How to create a smooth and balanced walk cycle Maya Keyframe animation, from blocking to refining Maya framework using Timeline, Auto-keying, Ghosting, Graph Editor How to create and set a Maya Project How to reference a rig How to install and use a Ghosting Script How to create a mirrored and symetrical posture How to connect information between the real science of biomechanics and the animation workflow of a walk cycled posses of a walk cycle This course is ideal for individuals who are Intermediate users of Maya Animation or 3D Animation and Game Design students or Anyone with a desire to learn how to animate a walk cycle in Maya or Anyone with a desire in learning character animation It is particularly useful for Intermediate users of Maya Animation or 3D Animation and Game Design students or Anyone with a desire to learn how to animate a walk cycle in Maya or Anyone with a desire in learning character animation.

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Summary

Title: 3D Walk Cycle Animation using Autodesk Maya

Price: $39.99

Average Rating: 4.71

Number of Lectures: 37

Number of Published Lectures: 37

Number of Curriculum Items: 37

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 37

Original Price: $27.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

How to animate a human walk cycle in 3D

How to create a smooth and balanced walk cycle

Maya Keyframe animation, from blocking to refining

Maya framework using Timeline, Auto-keying, Ghosting, Graph Editor

How to create and set a Maya Project

How to reference a rig

How to install and use a Ghosting Script

How to create a mirrored and symetrical posture

How to connect information between the real science of biomechanics and the animation workflow of a walk cycled posses of a walk cycle

Who Should Attend

Intermediate users of Maya Animation

3D Animation and Game Design students

Anyone with a desire to learn how to animate a walk cycle in Maya

Anyone with a desire in learning character animation

Target Audiences

Intermediate users of Maya Animation

3D Animation and Game Design students

Anyone with a desire to learn how to animate a walk cycle in Maya

Anyone with a desire in learning character animation

3D Walk Cycle Animation using Autodesk Maya is an intermediate 3D Animation course that teaches how to animate a human walk cycle.

The aim of the course is to showcase the animation pipeline of creating an organic and well-balanced 3D walk cycle. This workflow is the base for both 3D films and games.

Throughout the course, we’ll build the mechanics of the walk cycle through several and progressive animation passes. You will develop a strong foundation on how to build the animation from blocking the first key contact posses, to cleaning the motion graphs, to adding the final body overlaps.

Understanding the mechanics behind real human locomotion is crucial for a walk animation. Therefore, this course offers an insight into human locomotion concepts in connection to the animation pipeline.

This course it’s an insight on how to bring that spark of life into a human character and once you follow this workflow you’ll be able to animate any human walk, with any type of rig because the secret is the same.

Teaching modules

The course is being divided into several sections covering all the necessary tools with a 100% real-time animation process and explanations. The workflow is a progressive where each animation pass is being saved as a new Maya scene.

The course modules are:

Introduction Lecture

Setting the Maya Project

Animation Pass 1. Heel Contact Postures

Animation Pass 2. Foot Pass Postures

Animation Pass 3. Squash Postures

Animation Pass 4. Stretch Postures

Animation Pass 5. Cleaning the Motion Graphs

Animation Pass 6. Arms Overlaps

Animation Pass 7. Head Overlaps

Animation Pass 8. Feet Grounding and Orientation

Animation Pass 9. Final Cycle and Good Bye

What you’ll learn in this course

A human walk cycle is known as a gait cycle where each walking step is being build up from 4 key poses: the heel contact, the squash pose, the passing pose and the stretch pose, after which we walk back into the the second step. This course is approaching all this in great detail.

As animators, we must use real world principles in order to capture the illusion of a believable motion. So the course starts with a short lecture on Animation Resources and Workflows but also a brief into the real science of Bio-mechanics for Human Locomotion.

Then, we gonna approach the animation task with a plan in how to address  all the animation passes. This approach optimizes the process and creates clarity. Therefore, each animation pass or course section starts with a few minutes introduction around what we need to accomplish. And then, then will jump into action.

The working files

1 Maya project containing 10 different *.ma files, each file represents an animation pass, from blocking version to final version

1 JPG file as a walk cycle animation planning sheet

1 Ghosting Script, free resource

1 Character Maya rig with texture files, free resource

4 playblast Videos of the final Walk Animation (front, back, side, perspective views)

Specific animation tools and frameworks

Maya Project and File Referencing

Timeline, Auto-keying, Graph Editor

Creating a custom shelf with shortcuts and tools

Installing and using a Maya Ghosting Script

After this course

Remember, the walk cycle animation is an extremely knowledgeable process in learning character animation, with the right rig and the right application of animation principles this course gives you a very solid foundation for bio-mechanics animation.

Once you understand the mechanics and workflows of the generic human locomotion, you’ll get a huge boost of confidence and skills. You’ll be able to create any type of walk cycle animation, any type of personally walk, using any type of human character.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction Lecture

Lecture 1: The most common resources

Lecture 2: The science of biomechanics

Lecture 3: The animation workflow

Chapter 2: Setting the Maya Project

Lecture 1: Working files

Lecture 2: Project folder and rig reference

Lecture 3: Creating a custom shelf

Lecture 4: Instaling a ghosting script

Lecture 5: Reference image and reference camera

Lecture 6: Animation preferences

Lecture 7: Testing the rig

Chapter 3: Animation Pass 1. Heel Contact Postures

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Right side posture

Lecture 3: Left side posture

Chapter 4: Animation Pass 2. Foot Pass Postures

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Right side posture

Lecture 3: Left side posture

Chapter 5: Animation Pass 3. Squash Postures

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Right and left sides

Lecture 3: Fixing the left foot

Lecture 4: Arms swing

Chapter 6: Animation Pass 4. Stretch Postures

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Right and left sides

Chapter 7: Animation Pass 5 . Cleaning the Motion Graphs

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Global and root controls

Lecture 3: Hip swinger control

Lecture 4: Chest, head and neck controls

Lecture 5: Clavicles, shoulders, elbows and wrists controls

Lecture 6: Feet and ankles controls

Chapter 8: Animation Pass 6. Arms Overlaps

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Right arm overlap

Lecture 3: Left arm overlap

Lecture 4: Fingers overlap

Chapter 9: Animation Pass 7. Head and Neck Overlaps

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Head and neck overlap

Chapter 10: Animation Pass 8. Feet Grounding and Orientation

Lecture 1: Feet grounding

Lecture 2: Feet orientation

Chapter 11: Animation Pass 9. Final Cycle and Good Bye

Lecture 1: Final walk cycle on place

Instructors

Cristina Zoica Dumitru
Coach, Educator, Artist

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