Saturday, March 15th, 2025Posted by Jim ThackerTutorial: Creature Combat Animation in Mayahtml PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"The Gnomon Workshop has released Creature Combat Animation in Maya, a creature animation masterclass recorded by VFX and previs animator Stephen Cunnane.The workshop provides five hours of video training in Maya.Master professional creature animation workflows for VFX, feature animation or previsIn the workshop, Cunnane walks viewers through the process of animating three shots from a fight sequence between two creatures: a giant King Kong-style ape and a dragon.He begins by staging the fight choreography, exploring how to use references and storyboarding techniques to plan out how the fight unfolds.Cunnane then moves into Maya to block out and refine the animation, demonstrating key tools and techniques, and setting out how to balance technical and artistic considerations to create expressive performances.The workshop uses two inexpensive commercial character rigs: Truong Cg Artists King Kong rig and the Ben Dragon rig.About the artistStephen Cunnane has over seven years of experience as a VFX animator and previs artist at studios including Framestore, MPC and The Third Floor, and as an animator at CBS.His credits include Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.Pricing and availabilityCreature Combat Animation in Maya is available via a subscription to The Gnomon Workshop, which provides access to over 300 tutorials.Subscriptions cost $57/month or $519/year. Free trials are available.Read more about Creature Combat Animation in Maya on The Gnomon Workshops websiteHave your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we dont post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.Full disclosure: CG Channel is owned by Gnomon.Latest NewsTutorial: Creature Combat Animation in MayaDiscover how to create a King Kong-style creature fight sequence with The Gnomon Workshop's new five-hour Maya masterclass.Saturday, March 15th, 2025Wonder Studio becomes Autodesk Flow StudioAI-based service for VFX and animation gets rebranded as part of Autodesk's Flow cloud platform. Check out its latest features.Friday, March 14th, 2025Polygonflow releases Dash 1.9Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool, including Runtime Virtual Texturing and an Advanced Water Shader.Thursday, March 13th, 2025Get KitBash3D's Gaea fantasy architecture asset pack for freeYou can download the set of 1,200+ meshes of buildings and props free from Epic Games' Fab marketplace - but you'll need to be quick about it.Wednesday, March 12th, 2025Check out open-source Blender character generator MPFB 2New free plugin based on veteran standalone app MakeHuman creates custom 3D characters, complete with skin and clothing.Tuesday, March 11th, 2025Check out neat AI-trained hand mocap tool HandCraft ProAnimator Tal Minks' promising Maya plugin extracts hand animation from a standard webcam and bakes it to any five-fingered Maya character.Monday, March 10th, 2025More NewsTutorial: Creating Production-Ready Hero Assets Using MariAMD releases Capsaicin 1.2AMD launches FSR 4, AFMF 2.1 and RIS 2.0AMD launches Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070D5 Render 2.10 adds real-time path tracingDownload Marmoset's free materials for Toolbag 5Autodesk lays off 1,350 staff3d-io releases Unwrella-IO5 key features for CG artists in Godot 4.4Trimble releases SketchUp 2025.0Tutorial: Dynamic Cloth Simulation for ProductionCheck out free Blender scattering add-on OpenScatterOlder Posts