In this course, Game Character Animation in Maya and Unity, you will learn the foundations of creating great game animation inside of Maya. First, you will learn the importance of breaking down and understanding a character rig. After that, you'll dive into the animation process, by creating a walk cycle, an important staple in nearly all games. Through the process of establishing and defining the key poses of the walk cycle, you will take that same skillset into creating a run cycle. Finally, you'll learn how to animate an idle, utilizing a more straight-ahead or layered approach. With all the animations created you'll wrap up the course by exporting and implementing the animations into Unity. By the end of this course, you'll have the skills and confidence to create your own game animations in Maya and Unity.
Every artist who has discovered a passion for visual effects, animation, games and design always tend to get ahead of themselves with trying new things. It's impossible not to dive right in and start bringing your ideas to life even before you have learned the basics.
Pluralsight – Game Character Animation in Maya and Unity
Creating a melee battle scene is one of the most fun and challenging animation tasks. In this course, Animating Melee Combat in Maya and Unity, you will get to see how to use a variety of animation techniques, including hand key-framing, hybrid animation with mocap clips, and some procedural animation to get it done. First, you will get to see the importance of the animatic and the scratch track for the audio in creating these scenes. Next, you will learn how to properly zero your characters and their relation to each other in world-space. Finally, you will go over editing changes and making improvements to your character in Maya. By the end of this course, you'll have a solid understanding of process, techniques, and commitment it takes to bring an exciting battle sequence to life.
About the course: Here's another beginner course for rigging should you like 3ds Max more. If you're planning to work in the video game industry as a character artist, rigging skills might be required from you in order to prepare your models for animation. To ease the learning curve, Stewart Jones will show you how to create a production-ready character rig and provide you with the basic knowledge needed. Again, you'll prepare a sample model for rigging, set up the skeleton and rigging components, attach geometry, and polish the result.
Mapped as sequential training through the Game Environment Modeling learning path, the courses provide game developers with the most direct route to increased proficiency in gaming environments, character modeling and gameplay elements using leading software tools including Maya, Unity, Photoshop, ZBrush and more.
Pluralsight, an online learning resource for professional software, has released a free, downloadable game titled Swords and Shovels to strengthen the learning experience for aspiring game developers. It gives the trainee a hands-on opportunity to play a game they can then learn to completely recreate themselves through a series of courses available on Pluralsight. Designed as sequential training through the Game Environment Modelling learning path, the courses contribute to proficiency in gaming environments, character modelling and gameplay elements using recognised software including Maya, Unity, Photoshop, ZBrush and other related applications.
I absolutely recommend joining Pluralsight if you want to learn and even go pro in any of these areas: 3D animation, modeling, sculpting, game design, character design and/or rendering concept art for movies & video games.
Many people find rigging the most difficult area of game development. It's not hard to see why. It's not enough to be impressed by the controllers that animated the dragon, or the joint system used by the adventurers to create the game. It is a cross between forward-facing art and backend design. This discipline takes the back seat to almost everything else that you see on the screen. Understanding how to rig will make your adventurer or dragon character more powerful and allow them to live a full life. This course Game Character Rigging Fundamentals will show you that rigging does not have to be difficult. It can be done in an easy-to-understand manner. You will begin by learning the basics of creating joints, and how to build a skeleton. Once you have that completed, you can move on to creating animation controllers. These constraints will allow the joints to move. The character can then be attached to the rig, and you can adjust the skin weights. To give the rig more complexity, you can create set driven keys that allow for elements such as foot roll and finger gripping. This course will give you everything you need to rig characters and provide a solid foundation for advanced rigging. Software required: Maya 2017. 2ff7e9595c
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