Animate a professional looking jump in Autodesk Maya

Jumps are one of the key blocks of human locomotion, and the foundation for advanced body mechanics. Mastering jumps in 3D animation gives you the confidence and skills to control your human characters in more articulated body mechanics scenes.

Learn professional 3D animation workflows while animating a high quality jump. You only need a trial copy of Maya!

At the end of this course you will be able to confidently animate human jumps, interpret reference footage for animation, and adopt the same techniques professionals employ to produce industry standard animations.

You will learn about:

• Working with video references

• Identifying and designing the key poses of a jump

• Troubleshooting posing

• Mirroring poses employing easy to use custom tools

• Converting animation space

• Understanding weight shifts in locomotion

• Setting up priorities for splining

• Animation splining and polishing workflows

The course will employ industry standard software Autodesk Maya, but the same workflows can be applied to any 3D package.

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