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| Body Mechanics Tutorial with Amedeo Beretta |
The tutorial was recorded by Escape Studios tutor Amedeo Beretta, who will teach our 2nd year undergraduate animators this September.
You can find the new body mechanics tutorial, using the free "Ultimate Walker" rig, here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/7400864
Escape Studios - Body mechanics animation tutorial - Introduction from Escape Studios on Vimeo.
Body Mechanics Tutorial
The new body mechanics tutorial can be found here at our Vimeo Tutorial Channel:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/7400864
About Amedeo Beretta
Amedeo Beretta has over 14 years experience on VFX and full CGI features, series, TV ADs and Video Games. He started off as a generalist, developing skills in concept art, 3D modelling, texturing, rigging, shading, rendering, and compositing, but specialised in character animation. This experience, supported by an art and cinema oriented academic background, allowed him to contribute to a variety of projects. His movie credits include Paul, John Carter, and Planet 51, feature work performed at award-winning companies like Double Negative, Scanline VFX, and Ilion Animation Studios.
Teaching Experience
Amedeo has been directly involved in training both in Animation Studios and Higher Education Institutions, where he tutored on disciplines across the full spectrum of the CGI Pipeline and directed VFX and Animation courses. Amedeo also regularly teaches animation at Hdemia S. Giulia Art Academy in Italy.
Watch Amedeo Beretta's showreel on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/59236261
The Escape Studios Animation Blog offers a personal view on the art of animation and visual effects. To find out more about our new BA/MArt, now recruiting for September 2020, follow this link. To apply, visit the official page here.
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| Body Mechanics Tutorial - screen grab |
In this multipart 4K tutorial, Amedeo Beretta demonstrates an animation workflow to structure and deliver a basic bipedal body mechanics shot in Maya.
Blocking, Pose-to-Pose and Spline
Starting from advice on how to stitch and edit together multiple takes from video references, Amedeo breaks down the complex motion into smaller, manageable chunks, showing how to build a broad blocking pass, progressively refining it by adding more and more detail, while following a mixed layering and pose to pose approach.
Live action reference
In this video, Amedeo shows how to use live action reference to inform the animation, making it believable, lifelike and accurate.
Starting from advice on how to stitch and edit together multiple takes from video references, Amedeo breaks down the complex motion into smaller, manageable chunks, showing how to build a broad blocking pass, progressively refining it by adding more and more detail, while following a mixed layering and pose to pose approach.
Live action reference
In this video, Amedeo shows how to use live action reference to inform the animation, making it believable, lifelike and accurate.
Body Mechanics Tutorial Trailer
To see what's in the tutorial, watch the short trailer (1 minute 42 seconds) below:
Intermediate Level Tutorial
This intermediate level tutorial requires some familiarity with animating in Maya, and also a basic proficiency with animating run cycles (If you haven't yet tackled a run cycle, take a look first at Amedeo's Run Cycle Tutorial with Rocket Girl). Understanding the basics of animation layers will greatly help, too.
This intermediate level tutorial requires some familiarity with animating in Maya, and also a basic proficiency with animating run cycles (If you haven't yet tackled a run cycle, take a look first at Amedeo's Run Cycle Tutorial with Rocket Girl). Understanding the basics of animation layers will greatly help, too.
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| Amedeo Beretta |
Body Mechanics Tutorial
The new body mechanics tutorial can be found here at our Vimeo Tutorial Channel:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/7400864
About Amedeo Beretta
Amedeo Beretta has over 14 years experience on VFX and full CGI features, series, TV ADs and Video Games. He started off as a generalist, developing skills in concept art, 3D modelling, texturing, rigging, shading, rendering, and compositing, but specialised in character animation. This experience, supported by an art and cinema oriented academic background, allowed him to contribute to a variety of projects. His movie credits include Paul, John Carter, and Planet 51, feature work performed at award-winning companies like Double Negative, Scanline VFX, and Ilion Animation Studios.
Teaching Experience
Amedeo has been directly involved in training both in Animation Studios and Higher Education Institutions, where he tutored on disciplines across the full spectrum of the CGI Pipeline and directed VFX and Animation courses. Amedeo also regularly teaches animation at Hdemia S. Giulia Art Academy in Italy.
Watch Amedeo Beretta's showreel on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/59236261
The Escape Studios Animation Blog offers a personal view on the art of animation and visual effects. To find out more about our new BA/MArt, now recruiting for September 2020, follow this link. To apply, visit the official page here.
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