Character Animation Fundamentals in 3ds Max demonstrates the basic principles of character animation that help bring simple 3D characters to life. Starting with an overview of the character rig, author George Maestri provides guidelines for creating strong poses and explains how to animate from pose to pose in an organized fashion. The course also covers locomotion�animating realistic gestures, walks, and runs; explores the basics of facial expressions and dialogue; and culminates with an animated scene built entirely from scratch.

Learn the essentials to character setup and a time-saving approach to rigging and enveloping characters with XSI. Contains over 7 hours of project-based training for artists new to XSI. Popular highlights include: Rigging Workflow in XSI; Scripted Operators; Expressions; Constraints; Animator-friendly Control Objects; Enveloping; Deformation Preservation Techniques; Mirroring Weights; Creating Custom Spines; Flexible Spine Controls; Custom Toolbars; Corrective Shapes; Create Chain from Curve; Organized Scene Hierarchies; Custom Parameters; Transform Groups; Reverse Foot Controls; Effectors; Parameter Connection Editor; Models; Weight Editor; Symmetry Mapping; Parenting; Broken Hierarchies; Mirroring Rigs.

In this Photoshop tutorial we will look at the basic principles of designing a video game character utilizing Photoshop as a drawing and painting tool.

In this course, we will cover tools and techniques for setting up character rigs in Maya.
Step by step, we'll construct a control rig that is robust and animator-friendly. We'll learn everything from proper joint placement and techniques for correcting a joint's orientation to learning fun ways we can preserve volume as our mesh deforms and how to make our controls efficient and easy to comprehend. We'll also learn how to build some fun MEL tools that will help speed up our workflow, bringing that time back into constructing our control rigs with the best methods.