Digital Tutors – Creating Game Combat Animations in Maya
English | Size: 895 MB
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Throughout this tutorial we’ll go through the process of creating animation assets for game combat.
We will discuss the mechanics of how animations work in a state engine, the importance of reference, creating cycling animations like the combat idle, creating attacks that look great but still meet the time considerations of gameplay. We will also ensure that animations have proper weight and power.
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Digital Tutors – Indie Game Development Pipeline Volume 9 Final Gameplay and Publication
English | Size: 737 MB
Category: Digital Tutors

In this series of tutorials we will take what weÆve accomplished from volume 1 to volume 8 and create the final version of our game.WeÆll start our by setting up a multi-camera setup that will make our character feel truly immersed into the environment. Then weÆll begin the work of adding the final details that will make our game feel polished.These details include particles, sound, manipulating materials and fixing any holes in our logic found in the testing phase. Then to wrap up this series weÆll learn how to publish our game to our desired platform so anyone can play it.
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Digital Tutors – Indie Game Development Pipeline Volume 7 Boss Character Rigging and Animation
English | Size: 3,14 GB
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In this volume of the Indie Game Development Pipeline, weÆll learn about the process used to create animated assets for Unity with the help of Maya LT, a version of Maya specifically geared towards artists that would like to build their own games. In this series weÆll focus on the rigging and animation process of the boss character. WeÆll learn how to approach building skeletons and control systems. WeÆll also cover skinning techniques for polished deformations. Once the rig is finished, weÆll then jump right into animation and learn how to create appealing performances with time-saving techniques that really work. By the end of this volume, youÆll have the understanding you need to rigging and animate boss models of your own.
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Digital Tutors – Indie Game Development Pipeline Volume 8 Finished Asset Integration
English | Size: 1,3 GB
Category: Digital Tutors

In this series of tutorials we will take our finished game assets and integrate them into our project. WeÆll start out by creating texture atlases from the final environment composition that was created in Volume 1. Then weÆll integrate the final character and game boss that was modeled, rigged and animated in Volumes 4, 5, 6 and 7. From here weÆll look at how to set up all of their animations to work in Unity, all the while reestablishing all of the scripts that were created in Volume 3 and 4.
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