Recently we hosted a creature animation workshop at the VIEW Conference, the annual VFX Animation and Games event in Turin, Italy. This year VIEW took place online, and if you missed the original workshop you can catch up by watching the two-hour video above. The workshop shows students how to animate spiders using Autodesk Maya - demonstrating how to break down complex motion into simple parts to get a sophisticated result. The tutorial is two hours long and is completely free.
Spider Animation Workshop
I hosted a creature animation workshop at this year's VIEW Conference again this year, though unlike in previous years this one was delivered purely online. The two-hour animation workshop took place online on Monday, 19 October from 11am to 1pm Italian time.
The tutorial teaches students how to tackle creature animation using Autodesk Maya. We animated spiders - demonstrating how to break down an apparently complex motion - an eight-legged walk - into simple parts to get a sophisticated result.
About VIEW
The tutorial teaches students how to tackle creature animation using Autodesk Maya. We animated spiders - demonstrating how to break down an apparently complex motion - an eight-legged walk - into simple parts to get a sophisticated result.
About VIEW
VIEW is the annual VFX Conference that takes place in the Italian city of Turin. VIEW attracts many big names in the animation industry; last year's talent roster included Brad Bird, Hans Zimmer and Conrad Vernon, revealing the secrets behind their work. It's a great event, which this year will be taking place partly online.
Character Rig - Raa
How to animate spiders
In my two-hour online animation workshop we used the free character rig which you can download from HighEnd3D.com - the Raa Spider Rig. Raa is free, and can be downloaded here. Raa is an easy-to-learn, low poly rig, perfect for learning creature locomotion.
Creature Animation Workshop
In this two hour class I showed how to animate a spider in motion. The class is just two hours long, and is aimed at animation beginners. You don't need to know anything about animation to follow the class - though a basic understanding of the Maya interface will certainly help.
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| Spider by Steve Woodhouse |
How to animate spiders
Spiders look complex - eight legs moving together at furious speed - and hard to animate. But I teach a simple technique which allows the animator to keyframe just two animation curves - and then copy these throughout the rig. It's a system which breaks down an apparently complex action into simple components, making the difficult seem easy.
Student Animation
To see some of the great work done by students who took the class, watch the video by Rohan Mansukhani below.
Student Animation
To see some of the great work done by students who took the class, watch the video by Rohan Mansukhani below.
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