Ever wonder how to make an animated bird fly? It does look complex - doesn’t it? Now is your chance to find out how to make that fluid motion of flight look real. Alex Williams, Escape Studio’s character animation instructor will walk you through the mechanics of bird locomotion in this two part tutorial.
By breaking down the apparently complex motion into simple parts, Alex helps you understand the details of animating a bird in flight. Everything you need to know from live action reference, to a finding a useful rig, animating a flap cycle, and finally putting it into a believable and convincing setting is contained in this short video.
Tutorial Breakdown:
- How to use and apply live action reference
- Planning animation
- Timing and animating a flap cycle
- Refining the flap cycle
And, don’t forget to tune in next month and grab part two of this tutorial to learn how to work through the environment, staging the scene, creating a motion path, attaching our flap cycle to the motion path, refining the flight path, giving our shot personality and character and more.
How to Access the Free Tutorial
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Comments (6)
very good tutorial
Very good tutorial. I like Escape Studios CGI. Yours very Good VFX.
Joseph Kelly Very good tutorial. I like Escape Studios CGI. Yours very Good VFX.
Is it possible if we can download the tutorial for offline viewing?
Hello Eric, Thanks for your question. I am afraid that we do not make our tutorial available for download. However, you can come back to the system and view them as often as you want. This enables us to maintain the high quality which people expect of us.
Best,
Isabelle
Cool tutorial, I will definitely be using this one, can you make the follow up tutorial free as well :)
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