Digital-Tutors, an Autodesk Authorized Publisher, announced the availability of BODY MECHANICS AND ANIMATION IN MAYA: LIFTING HEAVY OBJECTS, an interactive guide to learning body mechanics and character animation techniques and the newest release in a growing library of interactive training for emerging digital artists. BODY MECHANICS AND ANIMATION IN MAYA: LIFTING HEAVY OBJECTS provides more than 6.5 hours of project-based training for both new and experienced animators seeking to create believable animations with life and personality.
"Learning proper body mechanics in an essential component of successful animation and creating believable characters," said Sandip Patel, director of global business. "Animators and artists learning animation and experienced in animation will learn an array of helpful techniques and methods of which they can incorporate into their workflow for faster and greater results."
Highlights include: exploring the body mechanics of a heavy lift, animating to show believable weight and tension, proper timing and spacing using rhythm, working with storyboards, pose to pose method, adding arcs, adding follow-through, overlapping for fluid motion, exaggerating poses for appealing movement, graph editor, weighted tangency & free tangent weights, modifying tangents, editing timing of actions with character sets, animating the body in sections for efficiency, animation hot keys, timesaving character animation and object checklist and additional lessons developed to teach artists proper body mechanics for animation.
Digital-Tutors (www. digitaltutors.com) develops award-winning training solutions for emerging digital artists using a unique teaching approach designed by university professors and industry professionals. Recognized as the largest resource for free online training, Digital-Tutors delivers intuitive project-driven training for artists of all levels.
Bill Desowitz, former editor of VFXWorld, is currently the Crafts Editor of IndieWire.
