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1. Real-Time Instructional Walk Cycle Videos and Free Rig

Price £39.95

When studying creature motion, the importance of animating cycles in the first stage of producing a complex sequence cannot be overstated.

Over an hours worth of real-time instructional videos that demonstrate the creation of this cat walk cycle. As a bonus you can then choose any rig totally free from this site (excluding the new wolf, cat and eagle rigs with fur) to practice your own cycles. Choose a rig here. These rigs are all created in Maya.

The techniques employed in these demo movies can be directly applied to any cycle, of any creature and any rig.

We will be selecting and publishing sequences that have been animated using the animationAteam.com rigs acquired through this offer, so please feel free to contact us again with a link to any work you would like considered.

“the videos have been an absolute delight to watch, I have never seen so many tricks in one tiny package” – Sam

“I recently purchased the cat cycle video and I have to say that I was suprised. I was happy to finally get my hand on a comprehensive video that shows me simple shortcuts to speed up my animation process dramatically.” – Sebastien

“Thanks a lot for doing this tutorial, it opened my mind to how to tackle these creatures, your workflow is so cool for quadrupeds. – Bruno

Thanks again for all the help and for creating this, it’s quite awesome! Your approach is much different than how I’ve learned to animate and I really like the methods you use. – Nick

The videos are delivered via Dropbox, I will send an invitation, registration to Dropbox is free.

2. Quadraped Path Animation System (QPAS):Mel Scripted

Price £39.95

“Hi Rob I’ve bought QPAS some months ago..AWESOME..I love this script…
Thanks”-Gabriele

“I’ve tested QPAS animation script and it’s simply amazing, so helpful ! Thanks.” -Lukas

“Thanks again for you continued assistance and awesome product support.” -James

Customers of QPAS include:

Atmosphere VFX, Vancouver.
Double Negative, London.
Aardman Studios, Bristol.
Jagex Games Studio, Cambridge.

Convert your quadruped (will work with biped rigs also) cycles into complex animated sequences in minutes. This script builds a path instantly and then attaches your animation cycle to it. The path can then be shaped to fit your sequence requirements, see demonstration movie below:

“This technique has been a fantastic time saver for me over the years” -Rob

QPAS is fully integrated into the Maya menu work flow.

The script will run on any version of Maya, any rig and will give you amazing control of a single cycle repetition, or as many repetitions that you have animated in your cycle.

The Path System technique provides a quick and easy way to create complex animation, and was used extensively in the creation of these animations. Further animation work was required for some actions (i.e tiger poses during jump down) once the path animation had been baked out.

QPAS has been used on VFX features and commercials such as:
Volvo – Easter Island Crabs (See opening movie)
Esuvee (Keepitonallfours) – Esuvee Rodeo. (see opening movie)
Happy Potter – Blue Bird.
10,000BC – Tiger, Vulture in flight, Terror Birds.
Hellboy 2 – Flying and walking Tooth Fairies, motion tests for Golden Army robot.
John Carter of Mars – motion tests for Thoat.

Using QPAS it took me approximately 15 minutes to go from a 45 frame cycling animation of this Allosaur, to the sequence you see here. I used the QPAS offsets to get the head turns and body weight shift during the pause, and the QPAS re-timing curve to achieve the pause.

The original 45 frame cyle can still be edited.

You can see foot slip as the dino gets closer to camera, I would normally tidy this once QPAS has been baked.

Think what I could have achieved if I’d spent another 15 minutes on it!!