Digital Tutors - Animating quadrupeds in Maya

An intuitive guide to animating quadrupeds with Maya

Learn time-saving animation techniques, the mechanics of quadrupeds, and fundamental principles for creating convincing quadruped animations. Contains nearly 3 hours of project-based training. Perfect for intermediate artists.

Popular highlights include:

    * Referencing Footage / Images
    * Mechanics of Quadruped Animation
    * Quadruped Anatomy for Animators
    * Ghosting
    * Character Sets
    * Follow-Through
    * Translating Cycles Forward
    * Timing and Spacing
    * Achieving Believable Weight
    * Show Buffer Curves for Optimization
    * Graph Editor
    * Animating Arcs
    * In-betweening
    * Editing Tangents

Lesson Outline:
 
1. Introduction and project overview 1:58
2. Setting up the scene 8:21
3. Beginning the animation of the gallop 8:18
4. Working on the next major poses 9:04
5. Continuing the poses of the extremes 9:56
6. Completing the extremes 10:31
7. Fixing the Thoracic Limbs / adjusting major timing and spacing 6:00
8. Starting to correct the fluidity of the gallop 9:40
9. Finishing the F-curve clean up of the right Thoracic Limb 5:13
10. Cleaning up the left Thoracic Limb 7:29
11. Improving the motion of the left Pelvic Limb 8:52
12. Concluding the modifications of the left Pelvic Limb 9:34
13. Winding-up the right Pelvic Limb 2:46
14. Fine-Tuning the horse's center of gravity movement 3:43
15. Adding the side to side motion of the Thoracic Limbs 6:00
16. Animating the Hips 3:50
17. Focusing on the Thoracic Vertebrae 4:11
18. The Head's movement 2:30
19. Adjusting the motion of the Cervix 2:44
20. Animating the Ears 7:11
21. Finishing the Ears 6:00
22. Commencing the work on the Tail 4:57
23. The wave pattern of the Tail 6:44
24. Completing the Tail 4:28
25. Finalizing the gallop 14:58
26. Bonus: Translating the gallop forward 5:31
27. Conclusion 1:11
Total Run Time: 2:51:40

Download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/200821438/AQIM.part01.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/200821443/AQIM.part02.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/200834051/AQIM.part03.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/200834054/AQIM.part04.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/200846360/AQIM.part05.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/200846365/AQIM.part06.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/200852932/AQIM.part07.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/200852945/AQIM.part08.rar