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HOW BLOCKING A COMPLEX CREATURE SHOT

person icon Gabriele Ranfagni

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HOW BLOCKING A COMPLEX CREATURE SHOT

Maya 3d cgi creature animation vfx

updated on icon Updated on Mar, 2024

language icon Language - English

person icon Gabriele Ranfagni

category icon Maya,3D & Animation,VFX Visual Effects,3D Animation

Lectures -5

Duration -4 hours

4.2

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Course Description

If you struggle in a production, if your blocking is not solid, if your animation have always problem of spacing and timing, and you don't know how improved, or just you are a skilled animator and you want to know more how controls his animation, just join me. I will teach you my solid animation workflow from shooting a reference, to build a solid blocking spline and polish.

In my career I worked in any kind of productions (and departments) and during this years I worked hard to developed a method , a solid workflow to have full control of my animation and hit every deadlines, without sacrifice quality for quantity.

The last 3 years was intense and I worked harder to delivery to you my knowledge.

I love sharing and teaching is my job and passion since 15 years.

Here the breakdown of the course

1) How use the color manager of Maya 2020 to identify story telling poses, anticipations overshoot and breakdown

2) Building a solid first pass of the shot with really solid storytelling poses, and create the phisicity of the shot

3) Analyze the passing position and mix reference and creativity to see how use it in the shot

4) Create the overshoots follows the energy of anticipations

5) Create the breakdowns with my hybrid workflow.

6) Feel a shot, retiming a shot without a reference.

7) Working on the timing of the shot and prepare the shot for the pass of spline

I hope you will enjoy this course.Animate creature is hard but with a proper workflow can be a really great experience.

If you want improved your production quality and speed this is the right course for you

My workflow is a solid workflow developed during 12 years of productions where I worked as lead and animator for tv series, feature and vfx.

I will show you how perform at your top in every kind of animation and mastering your skills, have full control of your animation

Goals

What will you learn in this course:

  • a great workflow to succed in a 3d animation of a creature


Prerequisites

What are the prerequisites for this course?

  • basic knowledge of 3d animation and Maya

HOW BLOCKING A COMPLEX  CREATURE SHOT

Curriculum

Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course

Intro
2 Lectures
  • play icon LESSON1 16:54 16:54
  • play icon LESSON2 01:04:38 01:04:38
HOW BLOCKING A COMPLEX BODY MECHANIC CREATURE SHOT
3 Lectures
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Instructor Details

Gabriele Ranfagni

Gabriele Ranfagni

Gabriele Ranfagni is a veteran of the animation industry.
His career begin in 1995 in Italy as a 2d animator.

During his prolific career he worked as a storyboard artist, character design, layout artist, background artist, stop motion animator, rigger, and now 3d animator.

He also worked as an animation and life drawing mentor since 2004 for many studios and organizations.


Right now Gabriele working in Montreal as a Senior 3d animator, where lives with his cats.

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