Learning Character Animation
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George Maestri via LinkedIn Learning
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- 3-4 hours worth of material
- LinkedIn Learning
- English
Course Overview
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 Circullum
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
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This Course Include:
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
- Provider:LinkedIn Learning
- Certificate:Certificate Available
- Language:English
- Duration:3-4 hours worth of material
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