Animate a professional looking jump in Autodesk Maya

Learn professional 3D animation workflows by animating and delivering a high quality human jump in Autodesk Maya

Created by: Amedeo Beretta
Animation Director/ Tutor

What Will I Learn?

• Animate a professional looking jump in Autodesk Maya
• Work with video references for animation
• Identify and design the key poses of a jump
• Mirror poses quickly and effortlessly with Studio Library
• Solid character posing
• Understand weight shifts in locomotion
• Learn to work with custom animation tools in Maya
• Understand space switching
• Splining and polishing workflows for professional animation

Requirements

• Be able to navigate Maya's viewport
• Be able to set keys on the timeline
• Understand the basics of Maya's Graph Editor
• To know that animation layers exist in Maya

Target audience

• 3D animators of all levels who want to deliver professional looking animation
• Beginner 3D animators who struggle to deliver convincing locomotion animations
• Beginner 3D animators who want to learn efficient workflows to animate human characters
• Anyone who wants to have some fun animating a nice character!