Animation is Base Movement | English version

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Base Movement is a Character Animation training course in Autodesk Maya. 40 practical tasks, 9 hours of video lectures.

I've been teaching animation to people for the last 10 years. During this time, I realized that the classic program of online animation schools is outdated. It is too long, heavy for students and very expensive.

The result of a long search for the optimal learning path was the Animation is.. course program.

The main theses of the program:

No more abstract tasks, bouncing balls, squirrels and other things that will almost never happen in your animation career. Only real tasks that are as close as possible to future work tasks.
Step-by-step work on the task. You don't need to do everything at once. Let's animate the pelvis and legs first, then the chest and head, then the arms.
Pose to pose is a very strong approach to animation, but there are a ton of tasks that it doesn't solve, especially in game animation. Spline animation is working in Graph Editor, that's what the future of animation is. In the course program, I'm building a bridge between the classic pose-to-pose approach and the spline method. We take the best, cut off the excess.

Currently on Animation is... courses there are more than 1000 students and I get a lot of positive feedback from students. Many people get a job and thank me for writing the course. So I can say with confidence that I know how to teach animation in the shortest possible time for minimal money.

So let's go!

About me

- Lead Cinematic Animator on AAA-game in OwlCat studio
- In the CG industry for over 20 years
- Animation tool developer such as Overlapper, reParent, Cycler. My clients is Microsoft, Netflix, Framestore, ILM, Ubisoft, MPC
- CG-genealist, Rigger, Animator, Animation Supervisor, Director.

As a result of completing of the course:

✔ Strong understanding of how animation is created
✔ 80's level of working with Graph Editor - yes, I'm splined metod animator
✔ Showreel with real case character.
✔ Work with Studio Library.

Student reels

Example of one of the lectures

Course programm

• Work in Maya. Set Maya preferences for comfort animation work
• Posing

Working with pelvis
• Weight trasfer
• Stand Up
• Sit Down

Working with legs
• Working with foot. First step.
• Step up on box
• Side Step
• Jump
• Turn

Working with head
• Rotate the head
• Nodding
• Negation
• Animation take
• Head animation in Step up on box task
• Head animation in Step aside task
• Head animation in Turn task
• Head animation in Jump task

Working with arms
• Clavicle and shoulder
• Elbow
• Wrist
• Intro to constrain
• Arm shaking
• Raising and lowering the arm
• Animate arms for Step up on box task
• Animate arms for Step aside task
• Animate arms for Turn task
• Animate arms for Jump task