Free CG Tutorials: Digital Tutors - Animating Cartoon Characters in Maya

Digital Tutors - Animating Cartoon Characters in Maya

Learn a production workflow to character animation with an emphasis on toon, squash and stretch techniques, and the principles of story-telling through movement. Contains over 6 hours of project-based training for animators learning the processes of creating stylized toon animation. Perfect for experienced artists.

Lesson : 6 hrs. 25 min.

Introduction to training; preparing the scene
In this lesson we will prepare the scene for our animation project.

Discussing the storyboards; blocking in the first extreme
In this lesson we will look at the storyboards and begin posing out the major poses.

Blocking in the second and third extreme
In this lesson we will learn how to block in the surprised turn pose and the lean pose

Blocking in the fourth and fifth extreme
In this lesson we will learn how to create the fall surprised pose and recoil pose

Posing the sixth and seventh extreme
In this lesson we will learn how to block in the standing-looking pose and the look up pose

Adding a switch to constrain the hands to the hip
In this lesson we will learn how to use Set Driven Keys to connect the hands to the hip

Posing the eighth and ninth extreme
In this lesson we will learn how to block in the waist cinch pose and the beginning of the run

Finalizing the first blocking phase
In this lesson we will learn how to block in the character exit and hat fall

Modifying the character as he is driving and as the cardboard falls
In this lesson we will learn how to put a camera in our scene and begin animating to that camera

Adjusting the fingers; adding a little bit of stretch and shock effect
In this lesson we will learn how to add more keyframes between our extreme poses to accentuate the action

Blocking in the character's lower body
In this lesson we will learn how to add personality to our lower body during the jump

Blocking in the character's upper body
In this lesson we will learn how to animate our hands to respond to what is happening in the scene

Adjusting the poses in the character's exit
In this lesson we will learn how to add personality with the hands during the exit

Animating a cartoony run
In this lesson we will learn how to accentuate the cartooniness of our run

Locking down poses to prevent major sliding
In this lesson we will learn how to prevent sliding in our character

Finalizing the fall of the cardboard cut-out
In this lesson we will finish the animation of the cardboard falling.

Wrapping up the camera's animation
In this lesson we will learn how to animate our camera to work with out animation

Adjusting the character's head and shoulders (frames 1-120)
In this lesson we will learn how to block in expressions to our character

Modifying the eyes and facial expressions (frames 1-120)
In this lesson we will learn how to tweak our facial animation

Adjusting the arms and body (frames 1-120)
In this lesson we will learn how to bring out our characters personality through the arms and body

Adding anticipation to the poses (frames 40-164)
In this lesson we will learn how to add one of the animation principles, anticipation to our animation.

Modifying the arm and adding a jiggle to the upper body
In this lesson we will learn how to add jiggle to our stomach

Adjusting the feet; lower body and arms
In this lesson we will learn how to continue tweaking our character

Animating the hat as the character leaps into the air
In this lesson we will learn how to animate an object that interacts with our character

Adjusting the upper body and arms in the third polish pass
In this lesson we will learn how to polish our animation by making small tweaks to clean up motion

Adjusting the upper and lower body in the third polish pass
In this lesson we will learn how to polish our animation by making small tweaks to clean up motion

Refining the right arm as it adjusts the hat
In this lesson we will learn how a character's arm would move when it was adjusting something

Refining the left arm as it adjusts the hat and modifying the feet
In this lesson we will learn how to have our other hand also adjust the hat

Finalizing the third pass
In this lesson we will learn how to polish our animation by making small tweaks to clean up motion

Refining the final animation pass
In this lesson we will begin to refine the last section of animation.

Finalizing the hat sequence as it exits the shot
In this lesson we will learn how to create nice arcing movement with the hat

Finalizing the arms as they exit
In this lesson we will learn how to make small tweaks to the arms and hands to finish the performance

Finishing the animation on the upper body
In this lesson we will learn how to add small details that really bring the animation to life

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Digital Tutors - Animating Cartoon Characters in Maya

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