Basics of Animation: Character animation in 3Dmax

This Book discuss the process of creating character animation using various tools offered by 3Dmax. In the beginning of book discuss the workflow in 3Daniamtion, the principles used in animation, and the significance of human anatomy with respect to character animation and also explain the importance of preparing the model for the animation, and explains the different stages involved in preparing a model and also the different stages of a two legged walk are covered. The steps involved in animating the walk of a four legged character,and the significance of body and facial expressions in character animation and details the steps involved in animating facial expression.By introduce of MAX Script,a built-in scripting language for 3d max that allows you to create animations by Scripting.Final stage explains about the process of creating character aniamtion using character studio.The chapter also details the different methods offered by character studio that can be used to animate a walk.