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Exploring Animation in Maya: Animating a Swinging Character

by Delano Athias

In this collection of lessons, we will learn how to animate a swinging character. Software required: Maya 2011 and up.

What you'll learn

In this collection of lessons, we will learn how to animate a swinging character. In this course, we will create an animation of a character swinging to a platform. Step by step, we will create this performance while covering various techniques that will help you improve your animation skill set. Techniques like: how to block in your extremes so that finalizing the animation becomes a faster process, improving arcs in the movement of your characters, animating between IK and FK modes, and overall we will learn how to animate with proficient workflows. By the end of this course, you will have the knowledge you need to create polished animations at a faster pace. Software required: Maya 2011 and up.

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

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