Digital Tutors: Body Mechanics and Animation in Maya: Pulling Objects

Easily learn proper body mechanics for creating believable animations with over 5 hours of project-based training developed specifically for character animation and body mechanics. Perfect for intermediate artists.

• Body Mechanics Overview of Pulling Objects
• Driving Force Through Upper-body Animation
• Compensating Body Motion for Mass of Objects
• Animating Believable Weight and Tension
• Utilizing Storyboards for Pre-vis
• Backwards Locomotion
• Adjusting Performance Through Timing & Spacing
• Roughing-in Animation Through Blocking
• Adding Follow-through, Arcs, and Overlapping
• Exaggerating Poses for Dynamic Movement
• Adjusting Keyframes in Graph Editor
• Understanding Weighted Tangency & Free Tangent Weights
• Optimizing Workflow with Character Sets
  
  

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