Fundamentals of Character Animation | 575 MB

Duration: 3h 32m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 960x540 30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 1ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Beginner | Duration: Dec 20, 2013

The fundamentals of great character animation are rooted in posing your model in a way that reads true, animating from pose to pose to mimic natural movement, and simulating convincing dialogue. Start here to learn the skills all beginning animators need to know to bring their characters to life, regardless of software or style. Author and animator George Maestri first teaches you how to position your model and create realistic poses that tell stories and consider balance and weight. Next, you'll take those poses and animate between them in what's called pose-to-pose animation. Then you'll get your character moving in a basic walk cycle, add expression to the face, and incorporate dialogue. Finally, you'll learn how to tie all the fundamentals together in a scene complete with pose-to-pose animation and dialogue.

Topics include:

Telling stories through posing

Creating a strong line of action in poses

Animating seating to standing poses

Adding anticipation and follow-through

Making your character walk

Animating the head and face

Animating basic phonemes

Animating a scene