Exploring Animation in Maya: Climbing A Wall
In this collection of lessons we will learn about a wide variety of animation techniques that are designed to improve your animation skill-set. Software required: Maya 2011 and higher.
What you'll learn
In this collection of lessons we will learn about a wide variety of animation techniques that are designed to improve your animation skill-set. In this course we will build an animation of a character climbing over a wall from scratch, using techniques that can be implemented in any animation. Step by step, we'll create this climb while covering various techniques like: how to block in your extremes so that finalizing the animation becomes a faster process, strengthening poses to get a more entertaining outcome, and we'll also learn how to work smarter by utilizing Animation Layers to tweak pre-existing animation non-destructively, so that by the end of this course, you'll have the knowledge base you need to create animations quickly and proficiently. Software required: Maya 2011 and higher.
Table of contents
- Blocking in the First Extreme of the Climb 11m
- Blocking in the Second Extreme of the Animation 8m
- Posing the Action of the Character Scaling the Wall 11m
- Posing the Character Getting Ready to Leap Over the Wall 17m
- Animating the Character's Descent 14m
- Wrapping up the Extremes 15m
- Blocking in an in-between 9m
- Refining the Upper Body 10m
- Tweaking the Right Leg 16m
- Correcting the Left Leg 16m
- Finishing up the Left Leg and Fixing the Right Arm 15m
- Wrapping up Corrections on the Left Arm 12m
- Starting to Finalize the Animation 8m
- Completing the Animation 10m
About the author
Delano works avidly as an animation author at Pluralsight. Starting his career at animation studios like Shilo, Delano has developed a strong passion for his talents. His animation and rigging background help him teach and create some of the most-watched training on Pluralsight. A few of his favorite projects that he has contributed to include: Character Interaction in Maya and in Softimage, Rigging the Human Face in Maya, Rigging Sea Creatures in Maya, and Rigging and Animating Transforming... more