Body Mechanics and Animation in Maya: Pushing Objects provides nearly 9 hours of lessons developed to increase your productivity with intuitive examples and workflow. Highlights from popular topics include: an overview of the body mechanics involved in pushing objects, driving force through leg animation, transforming light action into heavy action, animating believable weight and tension, examining line of action before, during, and after the movement, utilizing storyboards, forward locomotion, areas of force involved in pushes, identifying silhouettes for appeal and pose clarity, timing and spacing, pose to pose method, adding follow-through, arcs, and overlapping, exaggerating poses for appealing movement, animating the body in sections, using the graph editor, weighted tangency and free tangent weights, modifying tangents for fluidity in motion, utilizing character sets to edit timing, animation hot keys, and additional lessons developed to teach artists proper body mechanics for animation.

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