12 Principles of Animation in Maya
In this Maya tutorial, we will guide you through the 12 Principles of Animation in Maya.
What you'll learn
In this Maya tutorial, we will guide you through the 12 Principles of Animation in Maya. Why does my character's motion look so unnatural and unappealing? How can my animations captivate an audience? What, in my character's movement, is missing that will enable it to be convincing and entertaining? These are a few questions that will be answered through this training, all with the help of these fundamental rules of animation.
Table of contents
- Timing and Spacing for Weight 4m
- Timing and Spacing for Readability 4m
- Timing and Spacing for Contrast 4m
- Beginning Our Pose to Pose Animation 13m
- Concluding Our Pose to Pose Animation 10m
- Straight Ahead Action 9m
- Bridging Pose to Pose and Straight Ahead Action 9m
- Follow Through and Overlapping Action 4m
- Keyframing Follow-through and Overlapping 10m
- Removing the Confusion of Secondary Action 10m
- Squash and Stretch for Volume 6m
- Squash and Stretch for Stronger Gestures 5m
- Adding Energy with Exaggeration 10m
- Arcs for Correcting a Path of Action 10m
- Checking for Subtle Arcs 5m
- Ease in and Ease out for Realism 5m
- Ease in and Ease out and Moving Holds 5m
- Anticipation for Building up an Action 8m
- Appeal for Personality 8m
- Another Example of Adding Appeal 10m
- Understanding the Concept of Staging 7m
- Solid Drawing for Depth 8m
About the author
Delano works avidly as an animation author at Pluralsight. Starting his career at animation studios like Shilo, Delano has developed a strong passion for his talents. His animation and rigging background help him teach and create some of the most-watched training on Pluralsight. A few of his favorite projects that he has contributed to include: Character Interaction in Maya and in Softimage, Rigging the Human Face in Maya, Rigging Sea Creatures in Maya, and Rigging and Animating Transforming... more