Maya Tutorial: How to Animate a Dinosaur Run Cycle (Part 1 - Animating the Body)

In this Maya tutorial series, I cover the entire process of how to animate a creature's run cycle from start to finish using the free Jurrasic World IRex dinosaur rig. In Part 1, we will begin blocking in the run cycle using a straight-ahead layered method, first by animating the main COG control and slowly adding more detail as we go. The tutorial series assumes some prior knowledge of Maya and animating in Maya, but everything is in real-time so following along should be relatively easy.

Flip Animation Script: ackNegateKeys;

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0:00 Intro
1:39 Getting Ready to Animate
4:02 Creating the Contact Pose
11:51 Mirroring Pose
13:41 Animating the Translate Y on the COG
20:15 Animating Rotation on the COG
24:06 Animating the Chest Ctrl
32:48 Outro

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[johnoglive]

Finaly thanks for this Tutorial 😍😍 iam looking for this for so long 🤗

[AnujSharma]

Wow. Thank you for making this. Waiting for the full series. ❤😍❤

[LetsAnimatewithIrfan]

wow! I really like this layers approach. feels so organic. waiting for part2

[Abdou]

Why choose 30 fps animations for game animations ?

[SupakAnimations]

I'm loving the layered approach, you inspire me so much!
Thanks for the tutorials!

[dan]

Hi Mark!

Your course is fantastic! I thoroughly enjoyed your video, and it's been a tremendous help for my Maya education. I have a question regarding the Irex rig file – which exact file should I download? I see multiple options, and I'm a bit confused about the right one to choose. Additionally, could you guide me on the correct process to import it into Maya? Do you have any tutorial videos on this topic? Whenever I try to import, I encounter "Unsupported nodes" and "Color Management" error windows. Your assistance is greatly appreciated!

Thank you so much!

[arctech]

Thanks for all the tutorials! Your dauntless work is amazing!
It would be cool, if you could make a video about exporting these cool Truong rigs to Unreal :)

[gaigelarock]

Can you do a video on applying animations to a raptor asset from fab? I bought the "velociraptor blue" asset, it came with really good animations but blend space is killing me. I got the raptor to move using the animations forward walk to run and it does turns smoothly but refuses to use the turn animation. At the same time the raptors movement animation is slower than the mesh moving along the floor. There are little to no tutorials on this and the videos that are made are out of date.

[sharonid]

Nice thank you for the tutorial also in animbot you can flip the curve using the slider ScaleAvrange to the left ;P

[the_animatezilla]

Hii mark ... can you please create a dinosaur walk cycle tutorial?

[aayushrajput]

can make video on natural body vibration movment because when in animate something it feels stiff

[khaledbenslama]

Great tutorial as always How do I add FLIP Script in the correct way? Because I tried several times and did not succeed because I am new to this program and I am still learning this software

[ewaldus]

This is a year old by now but if you just want to mirror the pose just click the mirror icon and not the dropdown.

[kurokishizx]

do u have a idle animation tutorial where the raptor is just standing and screaming in front of itself?

[oozdm]

Hi Mark how are you. Thanks for tutorial. but i can't found flip script. How can i take this script ? thanks

[JoshuaHunke]

I am having issues getting the MGLAND tools in MAYA 2023 any suggestions?

[bilosofie]

mr masters .. nice video .. but what if i dont have animbot!?

[upendar]

How to mirror my poses and What if I don't have animbot

[srixerox]

can we earn money on Youtube by making this type of Animation videos and animation films, story in maya or blender Animation channels ??