Professional Series: Animating Realistic Eyes in Maya
This high-level series of tutorials was designed to provide you with techniques and tips for convincingly animating eyes in Maya. Software required: Autodesk Maya 2012.
What you'll learn
This high-level series of tutorials was designed to provide you with techniques and tips for convincingly animating eyes in Maya. In this series of tutorials, our objectives include understanding a character's emotions and thoughts through their eye patterns. We'll cover techniques and workflows for animating believable eye jitters and eye darts. We'll dissect various eye animations and discuss WHY they move a certain way. Overall, we'll learn how to animate the eyes and brows to feel organic and life-like. Software required: Autodesk Maya 2012.
Table of contents
- Breaking Down the Mechanics of a Stare 11m
- The Eye Patterns of a Thinking Character 3m
- Eye Reactions of a Happy Character 5m
- Dissecting the Eye Reactions of an Angry Character 5m
- The Eye Reactions of a Sad Character 4m
- The Eye Patterns of a Lying Character 2m
- The Eye Patterns of a Character Recalling Something from Memory 2m
- Additions to the Facial Rig 6m
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