Escape Studios Vimeo Tutorial Channel supports our students with online resources for their studies, including Technical Animation such as nCloth, Muscle Systems, Dynamics, Simulations and Hair.
Our Vimeo Tutorial Channel is our central hub for our animation and VFX video tutorials, making it easy for our students to find tutorials to support their classroom studies.
Tutorials include how to use nCloth in Maya, as well as the use of muscle systems in Ziva Dynamic, and two tutorials in After Effects.
Basic nCloth – flag waving
Basics of nCloth – how to animate a flag waving with Alex Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDg_9EP9A_k&t=1s
Also see this blog post on animating a flag waving in Maya
Technical Animation: nCloth, Muscle Systems & FX
Technical Animation & Dynamics
Dynamics, Particles, nCloth and Hair
https://vimeo.com/album/5399143
How to animate grass waving in Maya
Animate grass waving with Alex Williams, using the Paint Effects tool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC-yXs3TBbA&t=1s
Also see this blog post on animating grass waving in Maya.
Active and Passive Rigid Bodies
Active and Passive Rigid Bodies Tutorial – Learn to animate Dice falling with gravity using Maya with Alexander Williams.
Learn how to animate an “Indiana Jones” Style collapsing rope bridge in Maya 2013 using nHair, with Mark Spevick.
Learn to animate a flamethrower effect in Maya, as seen in the film “Suicide Squad“, using Maya’s liquid FX tools.
Ziva Dynamics – Muscle Systems
Ziva Dynamics (muscle simulation plugin used by Framestore, MPC and DNEG) with Michael Davies.
https://vimeo.com/showcase/7311220
For more on the Ziva Dynamics tutorial, see this blog post.
Adobe After Effects
Animating Gun Flare and Smoke in After Effects – with Marc Stevenson
This 20 minute tutorial by Marc Stevenson explains how to add gun flare and smoke using After Effects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZtXf9rgoCw
Also see this blog post on animating gun flare and smoke in After Effects.
Learn to animate “laser eyes” in After Effects.
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