Character Animation and Expression with Maya
Polish 1
A course by Sagar Arun , Animator
About the video: Polish 1
Overview
“Now I will be adding little details that will go the extra mile to make the animation sing. ”
In this video lesson Sagar Arun addresses the topic: Polish 1, 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
“Polish Now that we splined our animation and hopefully didn't panic, in the next lesson we will polish out our animation and make it sing. Polishing is the fun part about this process, because at this point your shot is working, your acting choices have been finalized. Your expressions have been mostly finalized. I want to tweak a few, but you can relax and just go about making this sync. I've simplified my timeline again. It's just these two beats, we can focus on that. Here, we don't need to do a huge amount because it's a simple move. We're going to make sure that these brows make sense....”
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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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