How to Get Started with Animation this Weekend! [Commercial]

Digital Art Live

Build your Foundations for Animating with DAZ Studio

Get started quickly with learning to animate using Daz Studio to create a simple 3D/2D Animation. Ivy Summers will help you create an animation with 30 to 60 keyframes in length, using any of the Daz Studio 3d characters, with focus on Genesis 3.

We're holding two live webinar sessions this weekend. If you've had questions on getting started out with animation, you have the opportunity for some live tuition!

We'll place the webinar recordings in the DAZ store within a few weeks of the webinars being broadcast.

Course Includes....

Learn how to set up the animation work environment

a. Setting up Daz Studio User-interface to speed up your workflow.
b. Get organised! Setting up a basic file management, for your animation project.
c. Storyboards and project scripts
d. Animation assets? What are they?
e. Beginning and saving your animated project.

Master animation timelines

a. Learn about the built in Daz Studio Native Timeline.
1. What are keyframes?
2. Touch on the basics of using the puppeteer for setting up animated poses.

b. Introduction to the AniMate2 plugin. Learn the basics of the AniMate2 Plugin by
GoFigure. Demonstrate the power of using AniMate2 timelines.

c. Introduction to aniblocks & MOCAPS ( preset motions files) to use with the
AniMate2 timeline. A simple demonstration on how using preset motions
files and why would you use them.
d. More about Keyframes & Editing them with the license version of animate2
e. Saving your Animation as a Animate Preset to share for other projects or to
share with other artist..

Learn Basic Lighting Skills for Speed Rendering.

a. Setting up a scene using AOA lights for quick 3Delight Rendering.
b. Rendering Animation with Iray. Recommended Iray render settings to speed up render times.
c. Essential shadow and display setting cheats to speed up your renders.
C. How to use Spot & Emissive Lights with the AniMate2 Keyframes for simple light-effects…

Rendering your animation

a. Introduction & Demonstration into Render settings & file Options used for a Daz Studio animation.
b. The Daz Studio render settings for 3delight.
c. The Daz Studio Render settings for Iray

Saving and Showcasing your Animation

a. File options to save your finished animation for film editing
b. Options for showcasing on social media.

Imago

The last part of the webinair sounds interesting... There's the chance to see it "recorded"?

I'm sure I can't see it live.

Digital Art Live

Hi imago,

thanks for your interest in these webinars.

Yes, for all those that register they will receive recordings (premium tickets) within a few days of the webinar broadcasts.