Digital-Tutors has released ANIMATING CARTOON CHARACTERS IN MAYA -- the newest release for aspiring artists using Maya, the award-winning 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering solution.
ANIMATING CARTOON CHARACTERS IN MAYA offers six hours of project-based training for experienced artists learning to create stylized toon animations and provides animators with a workflow to creating toon character animations, time-saving squash and stretch techniques, and the principles of story-telling through movements.
"Creating cartoon character animations can be an overwhelming process due to the duel tasks of studying how particular characters move and learning how to use Maya's animation tools efficiently," said Delano Athias Lead Animation Instructor at Digital-Tutors. "With ANIMATING CARTOON CHARACTERS IN MAYA artists have the opportunity to learn the most effective methods to using Maya's animation tools and techniques so that they are able to progress both effectively and creatively when creating cartoon character animations," explained Athias.
Popular highlights from ANIMATING CARTOON CHARACTERS IN MAYA include: staging, anticipation, follow-through, creating appeal, arcs, timing and spacing, pose to pose and straight ahead, adding personality, exaggeration, squash and stretch, secondary action, ease in and ease out, animating cameras, motion trails, working with storyboards, key-frame marking menu, adding in-betweens, breakdown keys, muting keys, interacting with props, and proxy cage for characters.
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