Part 3: ANIMATION

(Download Project: 3d_intro_animation.zip)

Basic Keyframing

I will demonstrate a few different ways to set keyframes, how to move them around, how to work with the animation curves that exist between them, and how to loop them.

Animation Project #1: “Bouncing Ball - Part I”

Parenting/Building Hierarchies

Basic parenting techniques can help you achieve layer effects in your animation that would otherwise take a lot of time and extra keyraming to set up. It is also the basis for how many things are controlled in Maya.

Animation Project #2: “The Solar System”

Animation Project #3: “Bouncing Ball - Part II”