Why do the best studios and animators in the world use Autodesk Maya to create 3D animation?

Learn how award winning games, movies, and TV shows such as Spider-Verse, Arcane, God of War, Last of Us, and more utilize Autodesk Maya and industry workflows with keyframe animation, motion capture, rigging, and more!

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Timestamps

00:01 Why Autodesk Maya is used by over 5,000 studios worldwide
00:47 How Autodesk Maya is used to create the best 3D animations, including Spider-Verse, Arcane, God of War, The Last of Us, and more
01:25 Blender vs Maya
01:56 Why major studios such as Disney, Sony Pictures Animation, Weta, ILM, Naughty Dog, Sony Santa Monica, and more use Autodesk Maya
02:50 Examples of how video reference and Maya are used in production
03:56 Class Creatives Masterclass Access
04:49 How Maya is used to revolutionize the motion capture process
05:26 Pixar and Disney: Why using Maya is important to them
06:18 How Maya's technical performance benefits large scale projects
06:56 Cached Playback in Animation Timeline
07:25 Animators most used interface: Graph Editor
08:29 Revolutionizing the look of 3D animation with custom Mel scripting and toolsets
09:12 How to attract the recruiters from the top studios using Maya on your demo reel
10:30 Conclusion

This video features the work from the following artists:

https://vimeo.com/62214452 Uri Lotan
https://vimeo.com/23191421 Joe Bowers
https://vimeo.com/28960628 Louaye Moulayess
https://vimeo.com/11009073 Stefan Schumacher
https://vimeo.com/user5107322 Minor Jose Gaytan
  / jordan1mation   Jordan Barg
https://vimeo.com/aclermont Augustin Clermont
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Ke... Christian Haniszeski
https://x.com/AYMRC Aymeric Kevin

Learn everything necessary to learn Character Animation utilizing Autodesk Maya taught by a AAA game professional with university level accredited instruction! We will cover the basics starting with the Ball Bounce, Pendulum, and how to apply the 12 principles of animation to the human form. We will apply all fundamental aspects taught to create full in game polished animations of: Idle, Walk, Run, Jump and more.

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

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 animate your custom created character from scratch.

Over 15 hours of Animation instruction!

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 Dog (Uncharted Franchise), Insomniac (Ratchet and Clank Franchise), Guerilla Games (Killzone Franchise), Sucker Punch (Infamous Franchise), 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.