Students will master animation timing, rhythm, embellishment, and finesse of dynamic actions to imbue personality into characters’ movements while ensuring that player reaction feels seamless, believable and responsive. Using two different characters with a variety of weapons, students will learn how to create dazzling character animation combinations and fight sequences with outrageous attacks, blocks, hits, and reactions they will be able to control with a keyboard or controller in real gameplay.  It’s one thing to watch animation. It’s quite another to be able to control it in real-time–which is the allure of game animation. This class is meant for animators with a basic understanding of body mechanics who want to learn the workflow technique used by game animation professionals. Animators who understand the workflow from Maya to Unreal Engine 4 are valued by game studios.