Become a 3D Character Animator
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Channel your creativity and technical savvy to breathe life into simple characters as a 3D character animator. Learn to apply the basic principles of animation and the processes used by professionals to model, rig, and animate characters in digital environments.
- Apply storytelling principles through animation.
- Design, rig, and animate characters in Maya.
- Discover best practices from experts in 3D animation.
Syllabus
Courses under this program:
Course 1: Learning Character Animation
-Learn all the skills you need to know to bring your first characters to life, including posing to the camera, animating from pose to pose, walking basics, and dialogue.
Course 2: Maya 2019 Essential Training
-Get the essential training you need to create high-quality 3D models and animations in Maya 2019. Learn core Maya skills such as modeling, texturing, rendering, and animation.
Course 3: Character Animation: Locomotion
-Learn how to create walk, run, and skip animations that give your character style and subtly move the story along.
Course 4: Character Animation: Dialogue
-Learn how to convey emotion through facial expression, and animate dialogue, with these fundamental animation principles.
Course 5: Modeling a Cartoon Character in Maya
-Learn how to use Maya to model a simple cartoon character that can be later rigged and animated in the program of your choice.
Course 6: Rigging a Cartoon Character in Maya
-Add squash and stretch to a rig in Maya, using techniques specific to cartoon characters: stretchy joints, IK/FK switching, and facial rigging.
Course 7: Animating Cartoon Characters in Maya
-Teaches simple steps to creating exaggerated cartoon animation in Maya, using principles such as squash and stretch, exaggeration, follow-through, and overlapping action.
Course 8: Chris Landreth: Oscar-Winning Animation Director
-Tune into this interview with Chris Landreth, a pioneering animator and director of the Oscar-winning animated short, Ryan.
Course 9: Maya: nHair
-Learn to create, style, animate, and render realistic hair with Maya nHair.
Course 1: Learning Character Animation
-Learn all the skills you need to know to bring your first characters to life, including posing to the camera, animating from pose to pose, walking basics, and dialogue.
Course 2: Maya 2019 Essential Training
-Get the essential training you need to create high-quality 3D models and animations in Maya 2019. Learn core Maya skills such as modeling, texturing, rendering, and animation.
Course 3: Character Animation: Locomotion
-Learn how to create walk, run, and skip animations that give your character style and subtly move the story along.
Course 4: Character Animation: Dialogue
-Learn how to convey emotion through facial expression, and animate dialogue, with these fundamental animation principles.
Course 5: Modeling a Cartoon Character in Maya
-Learn how to use Maya to model a simple cartoon character that can be later rigged and animated in the program of your choice.
Course 6: Rigging a Cartoon Character in Maya
-Add squash and stretch to a rig in Maya, using techniques specific to cartoon characters: stretchy joints, IK/FK switching, and facial rigging.
Course 7: Animating Cartoon Characters in Maya
-Teaches simple steps to creating exaggerated cartoon animation in Maya, using principles such as squash and stretch, exaggeration, follow-through, and overlapping action.
Course 8: Chris Landreth: Oscar-Winning Animation Director
-Tune into this interview with Chris Landreth, a pioneering animator and director of the Oscar-winning animated short, Ryan.
Course 9: Maya: nHair
-Learn to create, style, animate, and render realistic hair with Maya nHair.
Courses
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Learn how to convey emotion through facial expression, and animate dialogue, with these fundamental animation principles.
-
Learn how to create walk, run, and skip animations that give your character style and subtly move the story along.
-
Learn all the skills you need to know to bring your first characters to life, including posing to the camera, animating from pose to pose, walking basics, and dialogue.
-
Get the essential training you need to create high-quality 3D models and animations in Maya 2019. Learn core Maya skills such as modeling, texturing, rendering, and animation.
-
Learn to create, style, animate, and render realistic hair with Maya nHair.
-
Learn how to use Maya to model a simple cartoon character that can be later rigged and animated in the program of your choice.
-
Add squash and stretch to a rig in Maya, using techniques specific to cartoon characters: stretchy joints, IK/FK switching, and facial rigging.
-
Teaches simple steps to creating exaggerated cartoon animation in Maya, using principles such as squash and stretch, exaggeration, follow-through, and overlapping action.
-
Tune into this interview with Chris Landreth, a pioneering animator and director of the Oscar-winning animated short, Ryan.
Taught by
George Maestri, Chris Landreth and Aaron F. Ross
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