Welcome, and thanks for choosing Class Creative’s Maya & Unreal: 3DCharacter Kpop Dance Animation Fundamentals |Complete Guide From Beginners to Pros |Body Mechanics & VFXBasics!!

In this foundation course we will be learning the fundamentals of Character Animation for games (specifically for the Unreal engine, but this method will also work for other game engines such as Unity).

Learn everything necessary for a Character Animation Dance (Kpop example) utilizing Autodesk Maya taught by a AAA game professional with university level accredited instruction! This process can be applied to any style of dance animation for your project!

Autodesk Maya is the industry standard 3D animation software, understanding the concepts in this course will help you land a job in the game, film, tv, or music industry. In this course you will learn how to rig and animate your custom created character from scratch.

We will cover the following core skill sets:

• Getting started with Maya and understanding the animation process
• Understanding how to utilize the reference image plane in Maya to create a realistic game engine ready Dance (Kpop) Animation
• Strong Fundamentals of Animation Body Mechanics
• Process of using IK/FKcontrollers and best practices of Unreal Engine’s A.R.T. tools for Autodesk Maya
• How to create animation timing for VFX using 3 different styles of rigs (animated texture, mesh, and visual effect rig)
• Animation timing of these VFX rigs for pipeline production process
• Unreal Engine’s A.R.T. rigging tools for Autodesk Maya
• Understanding hotkeys to animate and rig quickly
• Animating with keyframes
• Animating a production ready dance animation (Kpop) quickly and efficiently
• Advanced polish process to create professional level animation ready for game engine (Unreal/Unity) export

***NOTECourse does NOT include custom character mesh. ART tools will include mannequin mesh which will allow all animation and lessons to be animated without a mesh or completing a custom rig. Course is strictly showing the process of animating a character of choice, for ANY character regardless of software or rig limitations.

We’ll be utilizing the latest software packages that top tier gaming studios of today use to create all of your favorite titles!

• Autodesk Maya, Unreal Engine’s Maya Animation Rigging Toolset (A.R.T. for short), and the Unreal game engine.

Why Learn From Class Creatives?

This course features an accredited university level animation instructor who has over 15 years of experience animating both keyframe, and motion capture for studios such as Naughty Dogg, Guerilla Games, Sucker Punch, Google, Disney and more. Whether it be a complex hyper realistic animation or a cartoony stylized “Disney” character animation it ALL starts with the fundamentals which we cover in these lectures.

Who This Course is For:

Whether you are just a beginner interested in Character Animation, or a Master professional looking to brush up on your current skill set, this course has material you surely won’t want to miss!

As with all Class Creative’s courses, we’ve laid out a structure that covers the full spectrum of industry standard character workflows from start to finish.

Please remember, if this is your first time creating animating a 3D character, we highly recommend that you follow the outline carefully, according to how our instructor’s have structured the course. We wouldn’t want you to miss out on any details!

However, if you are an advanced user and are looking for something specific to add to your repertoire feel free to dive in and skip to any sections you’d like to focus on.

Who this course is for:

• Competency using a computer.
• Developers who want to add game development to their skill-set.
• Anyone with a passion for learning game development.
• Anyone who wants the ability to create assets for games.
• Anyone Interested in Character Animation
• Anyone Wanting to Develop New Skills for Unreal Engine, or Unity

Course content

• KPOP DANCE INTRO
  • Overview of the project
  • Udemy Rating System Very Important Info!
  • Creating Idle Start Pose
  • Posing the Arms & Fingers
  • Animating the Root & Basic Timing
  • Extreme Pose Creation
  • Adding Breakdowns
  • Finding Next Extreme Pose
• ANIMATING THE DANCE
  • Lower Body Timing
  • Upper Body Rough Timing
  • Refining Shoulders, Wrists, Neck, and Head
  • Extreme Pose to End First Part of the Dance
  • Finding Extreme Anticipation Pose to Blend Breakdown
  • Upper Body Breakdown Transitions
• ANIMATING THE HEART DANCE
  • Animating the Heart Extreme Pose Transitions
  • Continuing Heart Extreme Pose Transitions
  • Animating the Heart Movements
  • Animating the Heart Movements Cont.
• ADDITIONAL DANCE TRANSITIONS
  • Finding the Next Extreme Pose/Lower Body
  • Animating Upper Body Movements
  • Finding Extreme Pose Upper Body/Adding Breakdowns
• FINAL DANCE SECTION
  • Finding Extreme Lower Body Poses
  • Extreme Upper Body Poses
  • Refining Upper Body Posing
  • Defining Final Lower Body Extreme Poses
  • Adding Upper Body Pose
• ANIMATION POLISH & BREAKDOWNS
  • Adding Breakdown to Video Ref Cut
  • Footwork Polish
  • Adding Overshoot to the End Pose
  • Polishing Ending Overshoots & Breakdowns
  • Overshoot Polish for Body Spin
  • Overshoot, Keep Alive Posing, & Footwork
  • Footwork to Polish the March
  • Shoulder Arc Polish
  • Arm Polish
  • Animating Heart Mesh Fx
• Heart VFX Modeling
  • Modeling Overview
  • Hotkey Menu
  • Modeling the Heart
  • Concepting the Heart Rig
• Heart VFX Rigging
  • Heart VFX Overview
  • Joints
  • Constraints
  • Skin Weights
  • Controllers
  • Creating the Joints
  • Creating the Controllers
  • Connecting the Controllers
  • Polishing the Rig
  • Heart VFX 02 Rigging
• ANIMATING HEART MESH RIGS
  • Animating Heart Rig Meshes
  • Creating Animation for the Second Heart Rig
• ANIMATION POLISH PLUS
  • Refining Animation
• BONUS OUTRO & FOLLOW UPS
  • BONUS/ Outro & Additional Course from Class Creatives