Advanced Body Mechanics (AN 03)

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Jump Into Action

In the Advanced Body Mechanics animation course, build on your skills from previous courses to animate increasingly physical shots. Pick a character and create your own action sequence, using cuts to help tell your story.

Whether you want to send your character barreling through a wall or jumping out of a plane, Advanced Body Mechanics will teach you the necessary skills to animate believable physicality and body mechanics.

Skills You Need Before You Start

This character animation course requires you to have a working understanding of, and experience with, Autodesk Maya software. If you don’t you can take our Maya Basics Workshop.

What You’ll Learn

Now that you have the basics down, it’s time to focus on Body Mechanics. In this course you will:

Use staging and composition to tell a story and help your audience understand the narrative progression
Plan a 3-shot action sequence that utilizes dynamic movement to tell an appealing story
Learn advanced techniques to make your characters pirouette across a stage, scale the rigging of a pirate ship, or backflip out a window
Combine body mechanics principles into a powerful tool set which you’ll use to create more believable motion in your characters
Incorporate different types and sources of video reference and use them to enhance your animation