| Free Download Digital-tutors: Animating Creatures in Maya: Insects video tutorial |
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| Monday, 15 June 2009 | |||||||
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Learn an artist-friendly workflow to creature animation in Maya. Contains over 4 hours of project-based training for character animators learning new methods of animating multi-limbed creatures. Popular highlights include: • Animating Hexapedal Creatures • Tips for Animating Insect Legs • Adding Energy for Appealing Movement • Using Pose to Pose and Straight Ahead to Block in Animation • Convincingly Animating Antennas • Follow-through • Overlapping • Weight • Anticipation • Establishing Timing for an Attacking Creature • Fine-tuning Motion With the Graph Editor • Adding In-betweens to Control Spacing • Animating in Sections for a Faster Workflow • MEL Scripting for Animation Lesson Outline: 1. Introduction / Overview of the rig 4:24 2. Preparing the scene for animation 10:27 3. Blocking in the next two extremes 10:52 4. Finalizing the first blocking pass 14:20 5. Adding a second blocking pass 7:22 6. Smoothing out the animation 4:30 7. Planting foot steps - Front legs moving forward 14:30 8. Inbetweening foot steps - Middle legs moving forward 12:28 9. Planting foot steps - Front legs moving to the side 8:48 10. Planting foot steps - Left back leg moving to the side 12:21 11. Inbetweening foot steps - Middle legs moving to the side 10:41 12. Tweaking the body during the charge 8:17 13. Animating the back legs during the charge 11:10 14. Completing the leg plants during the charge 12:13 15. Finishing the leg plants - Focusing on right side 8:20 16. Finishing the leg plants - Focusing on left side 7:00 17. Beginning to finalize the upper body 10:13 18. Adding animation to the front section of the thorax 10:01 19. Completing the petiole 8:43 20. Animating the head 7:52 21. Animating the gaster 13:02 22. Working on the mandibles 10:49 23. Adding animation to the antennas 9:13 24. Fine-tuning the front right claw 9:16 25. Wrapping up the right claws 12:50 26. Fixing up the front left claw 8:26 27. Completing the left claws 13:02 28. Finalizing the insect animation 14:35 Download Links: Download from Depositfiles Parts of archive: 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 or Download from HotFile Parts of archive: 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 or Download from FileFactory Parts of archive: 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12
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