Animate a Professional Looking Walk in Autodesk Maya

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

Created by: Amedeo Beretta
Animation Director/ Tutor

What Will I Learn?

• Animate a professional looking walk in Autodesk Maya
• Work with video references
• Identify and design the key poses of a walk
• Mirror poses quickly and effortlessly
• Solid character posing
• Understand weight shifts in locomotion
• Make the character walk through space without sliding feet
• Splining and polishing workflows for professional animation
• Work with animation layers to add details and variations
• Fix knee pops and intersections

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!