Animators Journey Intermediate Lessons-Only

Level up from proficient to professional animator by learning a versatile skillset to serve your entire career. This course contains all 12 weeks of lessons and rigs without mentorship. Lifetime access.

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome!
2. Course Structure and Goals
3. Your Demo Reel Shots
4. Meet Your First Rig
5. IK vs. FK Spine
6. Let's Go!
7. Quick survey before we begin...
1. 1st Week's Goals
2. Mastering the Pose - Part 1
3. Mastering the Pose - Part 2
4. Mastering the Pose - Part 3
5. Anatomy of Poses: Rule 1
6. Anatomy of Poses: Rule 2 and 3
7. Anatomy of Poses: Rule 4
8. Anatomy of Poses: In Maya
9. Poses in Motion
10. Gesture Drawing
11. Pushing Poses
12. Speed Tips
13. Silhouette Quick Tip
14. Quiz - Posing
1. Challenge: Posing
2. Upload Posing Challenge Here
3. Student Reviews: Eric
1. 2nd Week's Goals
2. Pose-to-Pose Workflow: Part 1
3. Pose-to-Pose Workflow: Part 2
4. Walking Body Mechanics
5. Feet
6. Walk Cycle Demo
7. Walk / Runs Timing Cheatsheet
8. Running Mechanics: Part 1
9. Running Mechanics: Part 2
10. Running Reference Analysis
11. Run Cycle Demo
12. Start, Stops & Turns Lesson
13. Start, Stops & Turns Analysis
14. Quiz - Walks, Runs, & Start/Stops
1. Refresh: Importing Reference Into Maya
2. Challenge: Walk, Run, & Start/Stop
3. Upload Walk, Run, & Start/Stop Challenge Here
1. 3rd Week's Goals
2. Meet Your New Rigs
3. Tom Introduction
4. Balance & Weight
5. Jump Mechanics
6. Lift Mechanics
7. Weight Lift Demo: Discover Key Poses
8. Weight Lift Demo: Blocking Pass
9. Weight Lift Demo: Blocking Plus Pass
10. Weight Lift Demo: Spline Pass
11. Jump Shot Demo: Discover Key Poses
12. Jump Shot Demo: Blocking Pass
13. Jump Shot Demo: Blocking Plus Pass
14. Jump Shot Demo: Spline Pass
1. Challenge: Lift/Jump/Stand
2. Upload Lift/Jump/Stand Here
1. 4th Week's Goals
2. Why Python for Animators?
3. This Week's Python Scripts
4. Locator Foundations
5. Locator Match
6. Script Editing Basics
7. Our First Script
8. Variables, Lists, & Selections
9. For Loops
10. Aligning Locator Groups
11. Adding Constraints
12. Finding Center Pivot
13. Easy Swing
14. Finish Swing Animation
15. Create Simple UI
16. Add Our Tool to UI
17. Using AI
18. Extra Script Example
1. New Rigs
2. Challenge: Demo Reel Reference
3. Challenge: Python Week
4. Upload Python Week
1. 5th Week's Goals
2. Cartoony Week Intro
3. What Makes Cartoony Animation?
4. Gimmicks
5. 2D Inspiration
6. Cartoony Posing
7. Stylized Demo: Golden Poses
8. Stylized Demo: Timing Blocking
9. Stylized Demo: Gimmicks 1
10. Stylized Demo: Gimmicks 2
11. Stylized Demo: Gimmicks 3
1. New Rigs + Cartoony Week Challenge
2. Cartoony Challenge Upload
1. 6th Week's Goals
2. Cinematography for Animators
3. Camera Language: Lenses
4. Camera Language: Angles
5. Camera Language: Compositions
6. Camera Language: Motions
7. Maya: Cameras Overview
8. Maya: Relative Motion
9. Maya: Advanced Path Technique
10. Maya: Easy Camera Follow
11. Maya: Camera Library
1. Cinematography Challenge
2. Camera Student Reviews
3. Cinematography Challenge Upload
1. 7th Week's Goals
2. Mocap Week Intro
3. What is "Mocap?"
4. Retargeting: Method 1 Custom Rig
5. Retargeting: Method 2 Control Rig
6. Retargeting: Method 3 Mixamo
7. HIK Rig Creation
8. Using HIK Rigs
9. How to Create a Cycle
10. Blending Multiple Clips 1
11. Blending Multiple Clips 2
12. Enhancing Mocap: Cleaning 1
13. Enhancing Mocap: Cleaning 2
14. Enhancing Mocap: Cleaning 3 Demo
15. Enhancing Mocap: Keyframing Demo
16. Enhancing Mocap: Pushing Style Demo
1. Mocap Week Challenge
2. Mocap Challenge Upload
1. 8th Week's Goals
2. Why Learn Game Anim and Unreal Engine?
3. Loading Unreal Engine
4. Unreal Engine: A Newcomer's Guide
5. Unreal Engine: Marketplace Assets
6. Easily Auto-Rig UE Assets in Maya
7. UE + Maya: FBX Animation
8. UE + Maya: Alembic Animation
9. Unreal Engine: Sequencer Intro
10. Unreal Engine: Sequencer Animation
11. Unreal Engine: Sequencer Shots
12. Unreal Engine: Sequencer Render
13. Gameplay: Getting Started
14. Gameplay: Project Setup
15. Gameplay: Importing Files
16. Gameplay: Custom Character
17. Gameplay: Locomotion State Machine 1
18. Gameplay: Locomotion State Machine 2
19. Gameplay: Animation Montage
1. Challenge: Cinematic or Gameplay
2. New Rig: Wraith
3. BONUS: Export UE Textures for Maya
1. 9th Week's Goals
2. Quadruped Basic Concepts
3. Anatomy of Quadrupeds
4. Walk Gaits
5. Trot Gaits
6. Gallop Gaits
7. Canter Gaits
8. Quadruped Feet
9. Turning & Transitions
10. Quad Walk Demo 1
11. Quad Walk Demo 2
1. Quadruped Challenge
2. New Rig
1. 10th Week's Goals
2. Flying Creature Principles
3. Flight Dynamics
4. Wing Anatomy
5. Flight Mechanics Pitfalls
6. Take Offs + Landings
7. Turning
8. Bats
9. Flying Demo
1. Challege: Flying
2. New Rig: Dragon
1. Workflow Week Intro
2. Relative Motion Tools
3. Relative Motion IK Example
4. Dynamics Ponytail Demo
5. Custom Rig Modifier
6. Proxy Geometry Method
7. Layered Method Overview
8. Layered Quadruped Walk
1. Layered Dynamics Challenge
1. Big Picture
2. Job Positions
3. Demo Reels 1
4. Demo Reels 2
5. Job Interviews
6. Contracts & Negotiations
7. Pay
1. Job Application Challenge

About this course

$1,997.00
187 lessons
46.5 hours of video content

Jeremy

Student work from the mentorship version of the course

Christopher

Student work from the mentorship version of the course

Francisco

Student work from the mentorship version of the course

Animators Journey Intermediate Lessons-Only

Course curriculum

Orientation

1: Posing

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2: Walks, Runs, & Start/Stops

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3: Jumps & Weight

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4: Python for Animators

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5: Stylized Animation

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6: Cinematography

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7: Motion Capture

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8: Games + Unreal Engine

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9: Creatures - Quadrupeds

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10: Creatures - Flying

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11: Workflows

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12: Getting Hired + Production

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About this course

Jeremy

Christopher

Francisco