Autodesk MotionBuilder, Essentials - for beginners (2 days)

Duration: 2 days.

Course objective: To teach you how to:
- Work in a production environment.
- Animate 3D models and work with materials to texture your models.
- Use lighting.
- Create animations such as walk cycles.
- Stage a scene and understand cinematography
- Create output for a variety of uses.

Our Autodesk MotionBuilder Essentials training course is for the busy professional. It is short and intensive, combining demonstration and hands-on practice. It goes beyond a basic ‘how to’ approach, offering best practice advice.

Who should attend? Professionals who are new to MotionBuilder, working in any industry in which animated characters are required, including gaming, television, film and even visualisation.

Autodesk e-certificate: At the end of the course, Autodesk provide you with an e-certificate to confirm you have successfully completed an accredited Autodesk Motionbuilder training course.

After course support: Following Autodesk MotionBuilder training, you are entitled to 30 days email support from Armada to help with any post-training issues.

Other MotionBuilder training: We offer tailored Autodesk MotionBuilder training to suit your specific requirements. Please contact us for more details.

Venue and dates: We provide Autodesk MotionBuilder training exclusively for you and your group. Courses are run on a date and at a location to suit you, which may be our Bromsgrove training centre or your venue anywhere in the UK.

Course outline:

• Interface basics.
• Keyframing basics & introduction to function curves.
• Introduction to the control rig & pose-to-pose character animation.
• Keyframing & walk cycle.
• Animation re-targeting & using pre-existing animation clips.
• Adding lights & real-time shadows.
• Introduction to shaders & materials.
• Using the particle shader for real-time effects.
• Introduction to cameras.
• Introduction to the story tool & creating camera edits.