Tuesday, November 26th, 2024Posted by Jim ThackerTutorial Maya for Animators: Body Mechanicshtml PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"The Gnomon Workshop has released Maya for Animators: Body Mechanics, an intermediate-level guide to animation in Maya, recorded by former DreamWorks Animation artist Erik Castillo.The workshop, which follows Castillos Introduction to Maya for Animators, provides over two hours of video training in one of the apps most commonly used for VFX and movie animation.Improve your character animation skills in MayaIn the workshop, Castillo explores the core principles that bring animated characters to life, including concepts like squash and stretch, anticipation, timing, balance, and follow-through.Designed for those familiar with Maya, the workshop aims to help animators elevate their understanding of how body mechanics affect a characters movement and overall performance. It includes practical exercises for creating walk cycles and animating common actions like standing and lifting objects, along with an analysis of famous animation sequences.The demonstrations in the workshop use commercial character rigs from ProRigs.About the artistErik Castillo has worked as an animation artist at DreamWorks Animation, on projects including Kung Fu Panda: Dragon Knights, and at leading VFX facilities, including Framestore and DNEG.He is also an assistant professor at ArtCenter College of Design, where he teaches both introductory and advanced courses in aniamation.Pricing and availabilityMaya for Animators: Body Mechanics 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 Maya for Animators: Body MechanicsHave 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 NewsExclusive Cyber Weekend offer on The Gnomon Workshop training[Sponsored] Save up to $124 on a new subscription to the leading online CG art training provider - the largest discount it has ever offered.Wednesday, November 27th, 2024Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday 2024 deals for CG artistsUpdated 26 November: Discover over 130 seasonal offers on CG tools and hardware, now including 3DCoat, Gaea and Axiom.Wednesday, November 27th, 2024Tutorial - Maya for Animators: Body MechanicsDiscover how to create more believable character animation with The Gnomon Workshop's new intermediate-level Maya tutorial.Tuesday, November 26th, 20243DGS Render 2.0 now lets you edit 3D Gaussian Splats in Blender3D scanning firm Kiri Innovations' free add-on lets you edit 3DGS scan data inside Blender, and apply simple animated effects.Tuesday, November 26th, 2024Nevercenter releases Silo 2025 and Milo 2025Check out the new features in the lightweight 3D modeling software, and its Unreal Engine-based real-time renderer.Monday, November 25th, 2024Boris FX releases Sapphire 2025Set of effects plugins for apps like After Effects and DaVinci Resolve gets new tools for mimicking the look of analog video.Monday, November 25th, 2024More NewsEpic Games releases RealityCapture 1.5KeenTools releases FaceTracker for BlenderCheck out Blender crowd animation add-on Population 2Download SideFX's free Project Greylight toolkit for HoudiniAdobe releases Photoshop 26.1Chaos ships Corona 12 Update 1 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D5 key features in Blender 4.3BiteTheBytes releases World Creator 2024.3Free tool: Reallusion's Blender Auto Setup pluginDownload VFX Assets' free 2D Cloud Textures PackCreate perfect topology for animated charactersEphere releases Ornatrix 3 for Cinema 4DOlder Posts