Animate a Professional Looking Walk in Autodesk Maya

Walks are the base of human locomotion, and the foundation for advanced animation. Mastering walk cycles in 3D animation gives you the confidence and skills to control your human characters in more articulated acted scenes.

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

At the end of this course you will be able to confidently animate walk cycles, 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 walk

• Troubleshooting posing

• Mirroring poses both manually and employing easy to use custom tools

• Understanding weight shifts in locomotion

• Controlling the stride

• Fixing sliding feet

• Setting up priorities for splining

• Animation splining and polishing workflows

• Working with animation layers to add details and variations

• Fixing knee pops and intersections

• Making the character move through space

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

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