Course
Skills Expanded
Creating Animal Animations in Maya
In this Maya tutorial, we'll take a look at three of common types of animals that you'll be asked to work with as an animator. Software required: Maya 2016.
What you'll learn
In this Maya tutorial, we'll take a look at three of common types of animals that you'll be asked to work with as an animator. We'll start with a small, lightweight bird. We'll then move on to a quadruped walk with a cougar and finish up with a heavy rhino. We'll discuss line of action and focus on posing to get a good sense of weight. We'll also use some tricks to offset our animation to create a better performance. By the end of the Maya training, you'll be able to approach any type of animal animation with confidence. Software required: Maya 2016.
Table of contents
Introduction and Project Overview
0mins
Creating Animal Animations in Maya
155mins
- Exploring Basic Animal Animation 8m
- Starting Small Animal Animation 10m
- Animating Bird Flight 11m
- Continuing Bird Flight 11m
- Finishing up Bird Flight 12m
- Introducing Cougar Poses 11m
- Exploring More Animal Animation Basics 9m
- Animating Basic Cougar Walk 11m
- Continuing Cougar Walk 11m
- Finishing up Cougar Walk 10m
- Animating Animals with Weight 9m
- Starting Rhino Walk 10m
- Continuing Rhino Walk 11m
- Finishing up Rhino Walk 11m
- Course Wrap-up and Conclusion 11m
