Class 2 09/10/2015

Maya Animation

Maya 2015 Hot Keys:

Animation Operations s Animate > Set Key i Insert Keys Tool (for Graph Editor) (press and release) Shift S With left mouse button for Keyframe marking menu Shift S With middle mouse button for Tangent marking menu Shift E Set key for Rotate Shift R Set key for Scale Shift W Set key for Translate Alt j Toggle Multicolor Feedback Playback Control Alt . Move forward one frame in time Alt , Move backward one frame in time . Go to Next key , Go to Previous key Alt v Turn Playback on or off Alt+Shift V Go to Min Frame k With middle mouse button for virtual Time Slider mode (press and hold and scrub timeline)

MAYA WINDOWS

     1) Graph Editor

        Used to track your animation curves.

        Windows > Animation Editors > Graph Editor

        Maya Help for Graph Editor

     2) Outliner

        Used to keep track of and select objects in your maya scene.

         Windows > Outliner

Ball Bouncing

ANL #1 from Nathan Love on Vimeo.

Supplemental tutorials:

Setting Key Frames

Graph Editor

Ball Bounce

Ball Bounce

Assignment:
-Review these youtube tutorials about maya animation and ball bouncing

-Finish Ball Bounce animation

-If you have time feel free to experiment with the animation or add motion to the tail.
-Play with the Morpheus Rig!  I will email it.  I will begin to demonstrate the rig for next class.

Morpheus Website:

http://www.joshburton.com/projects/morpheus.asp