GAME 266 Character Animation 2 with Maya

4 credits

Course builds upon the character and technical animation skills learned in MMDP 150 Character Animation 1. Students will rig a skeleton in Maya, apply and weight that rig to a character mesh, and animate the character in Maya with emphasis on advanced digital and traditional and character animation techniques.

This course develops a mastery of character acting and emotional facial animation in Maya with advanced rigging techniques with the goal of producing a professional quality demo sample reel. Students will learn to animate looping and linking game play animation cycles- walk, run, jump, fall, hit, recoil, gesture, idle, etc.

Prerequisites: GAME 124 and GAME 150

GAME 165 recommended

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Create and implement a rig for biped character animation in Maya
Utilize key frame and procedural animation
Adjust and edit skin weights
Create looping cycles of key-framed actions
Create fluid, dynamic character animation
Create emotionally expressive facial and body gestures.
Create lip sync facial animation
Utilize Motion Capture data
Produce professional quality animation demo reel

Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcome:

rig and animate characters and props in current industry tools

Total Hours: 60 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 20 Guided Practice (Lab or Clinical) Hours: 40