WEBVTT 00:00.150 --> 00:05.430 In this final lesson, I just want to wrap up kind of the what to do next, basically, so you've learned 00:05.430 --> 00:08.640 a lot of the principles of animation, you've learned how to do a walk cycle. 00:09.480 --> 00:11.550 There's still a lot left to learn. 00:12.030 --> 00:13.500 You know, this is Maya for beginners. 00:13.500 --> 00:15.540 It's not Maya for intermediate or advanced. 00:15.540 --> 00:17.460 So, you know, there's still quite a bit to learn. 00:17.460 --> 00:21.870 And I plan to release more animation courses in the future. 00:22.200 --> 00:27.420 But if you don't want to pursue this on your own until that time or if you want to watch other courses, 00:27.930 --> 00:31.590 I would highly encourage you to do your own stylistic walk cycle. 00:31.590 --> 00:34.380 So that would be the exercise that I would leave you with. 00:34.650 --> 00:38.880 And I wanted to show you the one I did when I was in animation. 00:38.880 --> 00:44.370 Student Oh gosh, this is maybe eight years old or something like that. 00:44.370 --> 00:48.450 And so, you know, we were tasked with doing a stylistic walk cycle. 00:48.450 --> 00:56.070 So I went as far as I could go with it, like super exaggerated, crazy, you know, walk cycle. 00:56.070 --> 00:57.330 It's not perfect. 00:57.330 --> 01:02.220 But, you know, this pushes the concepts, you know, do you want to get stuck in a rut of thinking, 01:02.220 --> 01:07.320 OK, the contacts, you know, are supposed to look like this and the passing positions are supposed 01:07.320 --> 01:10.320 to look like that and you can't do anything else. 01:10.350 --> 01:10.970 Well, that's not true. 01:10.980 --> 01:12.180 You can do anything. 01:12.420 --> 01:14.520 There's all different kinds of walks you can do. 01:14.520 --> 01:20.760 And what I would highly recommend you do is to film yourself, get your iPhone or smartphone, film 01:20.760 --> 01:27.720 yourself, and then play that back and see where, like, if this was me walking, I would pause the 01:27.720 --> 01:31.530 video and think, OK, this these are my contacts here. 01:31.890 --> 01:33.780 So these are those are the extremes. 01:34.230 --> 01:38.520 And then I would go inside of Maya and I would pose this out like this. 01:38.520 --> 01:38.820 Right. 01:39.180 --> 01:45.450 And then I would go and scrub the video of myself if this was me and I would find the next pose and 01:45.450 --> 01:49.170 I'd pose that out and I'd count how many frames in between each pose there are. 01:49.170 --> 01:50.520 And I'd start block that in. 01:50.880 --> 01:55.260 And then I would abandon the reference and then try to make the animation work on its own instead of 01:55.260 --> 01:55.680 Maya. 01:55.980 --> 02:01.290 And but yeah, this is what I would highly recommend you to do next while you still have the motivation 02:01.290 --> 02:06.450 and kind of everything is still fresh in your mind, jump right into another exercise and do a stylistic 02:06.450 --> 02:07.110 walk cycle. 02:07.500 --> 02:10.350 The other thing I would recommend is looking for other rigs. 02:10.350 --> 02:11.670 This is the Norman rig. 02:11.910 --> 02:12.810 It's a free rig. 02:12.810 --> 02:22.500 You can find if you go to 11 second club slash resources, you can find download links for Miah and 02:22.500 --> 02:24.600 Blendr if you want for the Norman rig. 02:24.600 --> 02:25.950 There's also a few others in here. 02:25.950 --> 02:34.050 But for me, Norman is kind of the most the next best step up from a skeleton rig that you can do. 02:34.100 --> 02:39.360 It's not super complicated and it's good to expose yourself to different types of rigs because they're 02:39.360 --> 02:41.100 all going to be built a little differently. 02:41.370 --> 02:46.170 And if you ever work in animation, you're going to have to get used to that because every rigger does 02:46.470 --> 02:47.400 things a little differently. 02:47.400 --> 02:51.990 So, you know, go find free rigs like this, Google free rigs. 02:52.530 --> 02:54.270 There's a lot of other ones online as well. 02:54.930 --> 02:55.950 I'd recommend this one. 02:55.950 --> 03:00.960 And then, you know, you could make your own you could find models on something like turbo squid. 03:00.960 --> 03:09.120 You could pay for models if you wanted to, you know, find rigged models or generic models and then 03:09.120 --> 03:10.050 you rig them yourselves. 03:10.050 --> 03:15.540 If you've watched the other section of this class about rigging, you could just buy models and then 03:15.870 --> 03:16.770 rig them yourself. 03:17.100 --> 03:23.280 So there's plenty, plenty of resources to kind of do whatever you imagine. 03:23.610 --> 03:29.700 And the other resource I would recommend on the eleven second club is to go to there. 03:30.030 --> 03:37.290 If you go to eleven second club, you can watch the critiques, watch winner critiques. 03:37.800 --> 03:39.540 And so if you click on this. 03:41.140 --> 03:47.590 You can go through and this is one of the best ways to learn, is to see kind of a finished animation 03:47.920 --> 03:51.010 and then you think it looks amazing and it usually does. 03:51.170 --> 03:54.910 But then you watch for like thirty, forty five minutes to an hour of someone just kind of tearing it 03:54.910 --> 03:55.270 apart. 03:55.960 --> 04:02.050 And this kind of shows you, you know what, this is almost like an advertisement for animation, Ventor. 04:02.050 --> 04:04.780 But yeah, they're cool school, but they're also pretty expensive. 04:06.310 --> 04:08.720 You know, if you want to pursue animation, this is definitely an option. 04:08.740 --> 04:13.710 There's also I animate anime school, anime squad. 04:15.450 --> 04:18.010 There's there's a ton online of other schools. 04:18.250 --> 04:21.510 But of course, I have my own classes that I'm going to be teaching, too. 04:21.520 --> 04:24.120 So I would encourage you to watch the still. 04:25.180 --> 04:29.710 But yeah, these online schools are just more expensive, basically, but they still have these free 04:29.710 --> 04:31.660 resources I would highly recommend. 04:32.700 --> 04:37.540 So watch these professional animators critique these animations and you will learn a ton. 04:37.570 --> 04:42.280 This is basically like going to school just by watching these critiques so you can go through the different 04:42.280 --> 04:43.870 months and the different years. 04:44.140 --> 04:46.510 And I mean, there's hours of critiques here. 04:46.720 --> 04:51.060 And this also goes to show you, you know, the reward for winning this contest. 04:51.070 --> 04:58.710 This is a little contest that's around monthly called the 11 Second Club is the reward is to get critiques. 04:59.080 --> 04:59.580 Right. 04:59.590 --> 05:05.590 And this is also where you need to start kind of mentally preparing yourself for animation as you want 05:05.590 --> 05:07.450 to get critique, you want feedback. 05:07.810 --> 05:11.830 And, you know, don't be shy about showing your work to other people. 05:12.070 --> 05:15.940 Even if they're not animators, they can kind of tell you, you know, that feels funny or that doesn't 05:15.940 --> 05:17.290 look right to me or something. 05:17.650 --> 05:21.280 They might not be able to articulate why, but will give you kind of a hint at what to look at and how 05:21.280 --> 05:24.390 to evaluate your animation, to polish it and make it look better. 05:24.670 --> 05:29.560 So, you know, you have to have kind of tough skin and be able to just listen to people and take their 05:29.560 --> 05:33.610 critique and, you know, try to make your your animation better. 05:33.610 --> 05:39.190 And that's kind of how, you know, over the next few years or if you want to continue to pursue this, 05:39.640 --> 05:45.700 that you'll really get better is to pursuing critique and learning from other people's critiques like 05:45.700 --> 05:46.060 this. 05:46.960 --> 05:52.480 But for the next step for you, I would highly recommend, you know, using your imagination and think 05:52.480 --> 05:57.400 up a very highly stylized walk or not even highly stylized, just something different. 05:57.400 --> 05:58.240 You could do a sneak. 05:58.450 --> 06:02.050 You could do a, you know, old person baby. 06:02.230 --> 06:05.110 You could do anything and you could grab these other rigs. 06:05.110 --> 06:05.860 And they're pretty generic. 06:05.860 --> 06:08.860 So you can kind of make them be whatever you want them to be. 06:10.300 --> 06:11.080 And yeah. 06:11.080 --> 06:13.360 So congrats on finishing this course. 06:13.750 --> 06:15.760 And I hope you've watched the other sections. 06:15.760 --> 06:20.200 If not, I would encourage you to go back and watch those and also follow me. 06:20.530 --> 06:26.920 And, you know, if you want to be updated on the future animation courses that I'm going to be creating. 06:27.250 --> 06:29.980 So thanks for watching and I'll see in the next courses. 06:30.220 --> 06:30.610 Thanks.