Foundations of Character Animation
LightWave 3D 9: Foundations of Character Animation brought to you by KURV studios
Timothy Albee is a veteran of Walt Disney Feature Animation, broadcast television, syndicated television, commercials, and video games.
Reasons to Buy
The DVD shows interesting technics about animating and creating poses in Lightwave.
- Actor: Timothy Albee
- Format: Color, Digital Sound,
Full length, NTSC - Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
- Number of discs: 1
- Studio: KURV studios
- DVD Release Date: June 21, 2006
- Run Time: 3.5 hours
- Skill Level: Intermediate
12 principals of 3d animation
Timothy Albee is very well known in the visual effects industry for his studio work as well as his 7 best selling books.
The Foundation of Animation
This video is designed to take new and intermediate animators through the
12 principals of animation as Timothy demystifies his animation techniques for you. Timothy supplies you with the cover character Jake and walks you through the Foundations of Character Animation.
This video is more than 3.5 hours of instruction and covers keyframing, using controls, life drawing, timing, squash and stretch, gesture, arc of motion, drag, follow through, anticipation and more.
Learning Objectives
01 |
Introduction to this Video | 01:21 |
02 |
Before We Begin | 05:13 |
03 |
Keyframes | 08:06 |
04 |
Using the Controls | 18:15 |
05 |
The 'r' Key | 05:32 |
06 |
Life Drawing Part 01 | 23:02 |
07 |
Life Drawing Part 02 | 16:32 |
08 |
Ease-In Ease-Out | 07:48 |
09 |
Timing | 07:37 |
10 |
Squash & Stretch | 07:51 |
11 |
Gesture, Arc of Motion | 04:25 |
12 |
Drag | 12:38 |
13 |
Follow Through | 19:51 |
14 |
Anticipation | 43:50 |
15 |
3D from 2D | 12:20 |
16 |
Bonus: Walk Cycle | 06:12 |
17 |
Final Thoughts | 01:09 |
Glass character in background as a reference
Good information on how to animate and pose characters in Layout; he uses a glass character in background as a reference and move/drag the foreground character to match it.
Popularity
Excellent DVD-tutorials to start with to get into 3d animation,
and want to become a first class animator.
