GAME266 — Character Animation 2 with Maya
4 credits Course builds upon the character and technical animation skills learned in MMDP 150 Character Animation 1. Students will rig a skeleton in Maya, apply and weight that rig to a character mesh, and animate the character in Maya with emphasis on advanced digital and traditional and character animation techniques. This course develops a mastery of character acting and emotional facial animation in Maya with advanced rigging techniques with the goal of producing a professional quality demo sample reel. Students will learn to animate looping and linking game play animation cycles- walk, run, jump, fall, hit, recoil, gesture, idle, etc. Create lip sync facial animation Utilize Motion Capture data Produce professional quality animation demo reel Program
Prerequisites: GAME124, GAME150, GAME165