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Digital-Tutors Announces Highly-Requested 12 Principles of Animation in Maya Course

Oklahoma City, OK – March 18, 2010 – Digital-Tutors, an Autodesk® Authorized Publisher and leading provider of award-winning educational solutions and services for emerging digital artists, today unveiled '12 Principles of Animation in Maya' - the newest release in the largest collection of video-based training for students, professionals, educators and hobbyists using Maya; the world-renowned integrated 3D modeling, animation, visual effects, and rendering solution developed by Autodesk.

"The principles of animation are the foundation to all successful animations," said Delano Athias, Animation Instructor at Digital-Tutors. "They're like the bones that make up the skeleton of character animation. Without them your animation will collapse, but with them your animation has the structure it needs to be appealing and life-like," added Athias.

'12 Principles of Animation in Maya' contains nearly three hours of self-paced training including 23 step-by-step lessons to understanding and utilizing each animation principle to creating magnetic, natural and memorable character performances in Maya.

12 Principles of Animation in Maya

Key topics and highlights include: timing and spacing for weight, readability and contrast, pose to pose animation, straight ahead action, bridging pose to pose, follow-through and overlapping action, removing the confusion of secondary action, squash and stretch for stronger gestures, adding energy with exaggeration, arcs for correcting path of actions, checking for subtle arcs, ease in and ease out, anticipation for building up an action, appeal for personality, adding appeal, understanding the concept of staging, and solid drawing for depth.

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Pricing and Availability

‘12 Principles of Animation in Maya’ is available with the purchase of an Annual Subscription. To subscribe and get access to the entire library of online training including all project files and learning features, visit: www.digitaltutors.com/09/pricing.php

About Digital-Tutors

Digital-Tutors is an innovator and leader in video-based training for emerging digital artists. The award-winning educational solutions developed by the team of educators and industry professionals at Digital-Tutors are currently being used by students, professionals, universities, and production companies from across the globe. Artists from the world's top studios are utilizing Digital-Tutors' training solutions and services to assist in the creation of next generation feature films, commercials, video games, visual effects, and emerging media. Digital-Tutors maintains strategic relationships and partnerships with Autodesk, Pixologic, Houdini, Luxology, Next Limit, Adobe, Pixar, eyeon, and Microsoft in the development of the software and education materials. Learn more at www.digitaltutors.com.

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