Maya Essentials 5: Animation Tools

Focuses on the basics of animating in Maya, including setting keyframes, working with animation editors, and automating animation with constraints and simple rigs.Animation Tools is a focused course that covers the basics of animating in Autodesk Maya, including setting keyframes, working with animation editors, and automating animation with constraints and simple rigs. Author George Maestri also shows how to create motion trails and ghost objects and construct animation cycles, an alternative way to loop your animation with the Graph Editor and Curves. Topics include: Understanding the animation interface Animating objects and their attributes Creating, copying, and adjusting keyframes Creating breakdown keys Animating objects along paths Hiding, locking, and limiting channels Fitting skeletons to a mesh Deforming a mesh with the Skin tool Animating a skeleton