Skillshare – Animate a Professional Looking Walk in Under 2 Hours. Includes polishing!

Learn efficient 3D animation workflows by delivering a professional looking, polished female walk in Autodesk Maya.

This course is designed for beginner animators who understand the basics of the workflow but struggle to give their animation that level of quality and believability typical of professional products.

Walks are the foundation for advanced animation. Mastering walk cycles in 3D animation gives you the confidence and skills to control your human characters in more articulated acted scenes.

At the end of this course you will be able to confidently animate walk cycles, interpret reference footage for animation, and adopt the same techniques professionals employ to produce industry standard animations.

You will learn аbout:


Working with video references

Identifying and designing the key poses of a walk

Troubleshooting posing

Mirroring poses both manually and employing easy to use custom tools

Understanding weight shifts in locomotion

Controlling the stride

Fixing sliding feet

Setting up priorities for splining

Animation splining and polishing workflows

Working with animation layers to add details and variations

Fixing knee pops and intersections

Making the character move through space