T0509 - Digital Tutors - Introduction to Animation in Maya

Learn the essentials of animation and creative methods for using Maya's animation tools. Contains over 5 hours of project-based training for aspiring animators and experienced artists seeking a refresher.Popular highlights include:

• Overview of Animation Tools


• Manipulating Animation in Graph Editor


• Ghosting Animation


• Exploring Various Cycle Options


• Editing Keys


• Modifying Tangent Handles


• Set Driven Keys


• Creating Turn Tables


• Outputting Animation for Preview


• Copying and Pasting Key frames


• Animation Curve Node


• Dope Sheet


• Motion Paths


• Seamlessly Cycling Animation


• Holding Current Keys


• Insert Keys Tool


• Breaking Tangents for Weight


• Optimizing Key Frame Data


• Animating with Constraints


• Overview of Trax Editor


• Fine-tuning Function Curves


• Baking Animation Data


• Simplifying Function Curves


• Breakdown Keys


• Buffer Function Curves

Lesson Outline:

1.	Understanding Maya's timeline	10:43
2.	Overview of Maya's playback controls	7:27
3.	Exploring Maya's animation preferences (part 1)	8:59
4.	Exploring Maya's animation preferences (part 2)	10:23
5.	Various ways to set key-frames in Maya	9:37
6.	Speeding up the key-frame process with Auto-key	7:05
7.	Utilizing the set key tool to generate keys	7:37
8.	Manipulating key-frames on the timeline	7:06
9.	Middle mouse button dragging on the timeline	4:05
10.	Using Display Key Ticks / copying and pasting keys on the timeline	7:25
11.	Delving into the graph editor	13:35
12.	Deleting key-frames in the graph editor	7:40
13.	Scaling keys in the graph editor	10:36
14.	Using Maya's copy and paste keys tool	11:41
15.	Pasting key-frame data to other objects	2:04
16.	Adjusting how our Function Curves (F-curves) interpolate	12:17
17.	Working with Buffer Curves	5:56
18.	Modifying tangent handles for fine-tuning animation	9:56
19.	Breaking tangent handles	4:58
20.	Adding moving holds in animation using weighted tangency	7:34
21.	Setting keys on animated attributes while preserving F-curve interpolation	4:31
22.	Using set breakdown to proportionally move key-frames along Maya's timeline	5:04
23.	Exploring the graph editor toolbar	13:11
24.	Ghosting animation sequences	8:24
25.	Cycling animation in Maya for efficiency (part 1)	8:41
26.	Cycling animation in Maya for efficiency (part 2)	3:04
27.	Animating seamless cycles	8:48
28.	Animating objects along a motion path	14:32
29.	Baking animation to regain control over each animated attribute	6:28
30.	Optimizing animation data while preserving motion	10:54
31.	Using character sets to organize key-frames and to animate efficiently	7:23
32.	Generating animation clips via Maya's Trax Editor for efficiency	11:42
33.	Utilizing the Trax Editor to blend animation clips	5:56
34.	Controlling attributes with set driven keys	8:04
35.	Setting up driven key relationships with custom attributes	5:07
36.	Overview of the Dope Sheet	8:11
37.	Animating with constraints	8:05
38.	Creating turntables quickly in Maya	4:02
39.	Understanding Maya's animation node	7:40
40.	Previewing animations in real-time with Playblasts	7:00
41.	Render setting for outputting image sequences	7:55
	Total Run Time:	5:31:27