Welcome to a layered animation workflow

(intriguing groovy upbeat music) - A layered workflow is something that I never saw done, until a couple of years into my journey as an animator. But, for a lot of people watching, it's going to be probably a breakthrough moment of, "Oh my gosh, this works so much better than pose-to-pose." (intriguing groovy upbeat music) Hi, I'm Sir Wade Neistadt, a 3D character animator, and full-time content creator, as well as a trainer and educator for animation. I've done a ton of tutorials for animators to get started using Maya, and I've done a lot of my professional work while using Maya as well. For a lot of people, it's one of those applications that you open it and you just use the few things that you know you need, and you never explore its possibilities. So I'm excited to show you some of the features that you may not have seen before, and some of the workflows that can really help speed up your process. We're going to actually build up our shot using different parts of the body in different passes of work, working on the hips, and then the feet, and different things that will eventually come together into one cohesive shot. This will potentially allow you to work faster, more efficiently, and just to be able to wrap your head around what you're actually doing a little bit easier. And so, I'm hoping by the end of this class, you'll have a good understanding of how that process works, how to bring a shot to fruition using it, and you'll have the confidence to sort of blend the two together. If you've ever done pose-to-pose, you'll now have layered as another tool in your arsenal. To follow along with this class, you only need two things, you'll need Maya and a character to animate. You don't have to have any prior experience with Maya. If you do have 3D experience, whether it's in Maya or another 3D application, it's definitely going to help. But if you're new to Maya, I'm going to show you the ropes of exactly what you need to know, where the certain buttons and features are, and how to use them to accomplish the tasks in this class. I'm excited to dive in, show you animation in Maya. Let's get started. (intriguing groovy upbeat music)