Character Animation and Expression with Maya
Introduction to a Character Rig
A course by Sagar Arun , Animator
About the video: Introduction to a Character Rig
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll talk about character rig and what kind of controls there are to manipulate a face. This will be an introduction on how to successfully animate an expression test.”
In this video lesson Sagar Arun addresses the topic: Introduction to a Character Rig, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Animation and Expression with Maya. Discover the fascinating world of animation by learning its key principles and creating an animated character filled with emotion .
Partial transcription of the video
“Introduction to a Character Rig We've chosen our character and made our expressions to translate into 3D, in this lesson, I'll show you how to use a character rig. A character rig will come out like this. It's going to be in a T pose or an A pose, which is like this. What a character rig does, essentially, is that it has little skeletons inside and you can move the controls to pose it out, like this thing here. We can do anything we want. We can move the head, the chest, the legs but we'll be focusing on the face. A character rig does have a lot of controls but we don't have to use all of t...”
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Course summary for: Character Animation and Expression with Maya
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Areas
3D, 3D Animation, 3D Character Design, 3D Modeling
Sagar Arun
A course by Sagar Arun
Sagar Arun is an animator based in Northern California. He received a degree in computer animation from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2018. After working with a group of friends on a fan project for Avatar: the Last Airbender, Sagar’s animation abilities received wide recognition. He has created animations for Walt Disney Animation Studios and Sony Pictures Imageworks.
Although Sagar’s career began just a few years ago, he has already created animations for a number of high profile films such as Frozen 2 (2019), Over The Moon (2020), Overwatch (2020), The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021), and Spirit: Untamed (2021) He is also currently animating for the video game industry.
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