Character Animation and Expression with Maya

Character Animation and Expression with Maya

“You've reached the end of the course. Congrats! I hope you had fun watching me go through the animation process, and thank you for letting me teach you about it! Before leaving I'd like to do a quick recap of the steps you'll need to follow for making your own project. Don't miss the first unit and practice before jumping into it and take ample time to prepare your animation first. When you feel ready let's review what you need to note: Choose an appealing character rig. Come up with an idea for your expression test.

Prepare and plan your animation before getting into Maya. This will help make the technical process smoother, and you will have a clear goal in mind. Animate a character expression test using Autodesk Maya’s animation tools. Lastly, polish your animation and present it in the best way possible. Well, that's it from me! Please participate in the forum, comment on others’ work, and share yours. Conversation fuels creativity so let's build a worldwide animators community. Finally, I encourage you to explore different emotions than I did and show us your animation and the process behind it on your Final Project entry, I left you some tips on how to upload it back in Unit 4. It's been a pleasure sharing with you what I've learned along my journey. Thank you again and see you in the forum! ”

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“Final Project With that, we're done with our expression test. Congrats again for going through the animation process. I hope you had a lot of fun with it. Thank you so much for letting me teach you about it. From first delving into Maya to learn the fundamentals of animation to animating a ball rig with a tail. You've learned vital information on how to animate anything. With that knowledge in mind, we chose a character and started animating our expression test. We went through the many stages of animation production, Blocking, Blocking Plus, Spline, and finally Polish. By the end of it, we...”

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Course summary for: Character Animation and Expression with Maya

• Level: Beginner
• 95% positive reviews (60)
• 2323 students
• 4 units
• 19 lessons (4h 6m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Maya

• Areas

  3D, 3D Animation, 3D Character Design, 3D Modeling