In this free video tutorial you will learn to use the Trax editor of Maya for creating clips, it’s called non-linear animation. After this tutorial you will able generate animation clips for your regular use in the long run. Animation clips are helpful for creating an animation which has different types of motions, such as you are making a karate fight animation on your characters. So you have a need to create different clips that can be used again and again for your continuous fight in animation. You need to make kicks, jumps, punches, sweeps, and much more for the fight of your characters. If you start to create a complete key frame animation on those motions of your character you will have to spend a lot of time for doing this, but with Trax editor you don’t need to set keys each time on same type of motions. You will create clips for this purpose in Trax editor and you will reuse the clips for same types of motions. In this video tutorial you will create only 3 clips as an initial understanding of Trax editor clip animation method. In next lesson you will go ahead with more deep and detailed way. This tutorial is about an aircraft’s take off and landing and is very simple.

This video tutorial is describing another technique of animation using graph editor. You have read in previous tutorials about different types of creating animation. Graph editor is among one of them. Maya provides you such facility just for creating and enhancing the animation. Graph editor controls the animation quite different and it denotes the coordinates with three different color curves. You can animate here with the coordinate system and move the curve ahead or backward to animate your scene. In Key frame setting you just move the object and then assign the key frames but here first move the object by moving the curve a little bit forward or backward to animate your model. The key frames method just control and animate on specific mode but with graph editor you can animate the model in move, rotate and scale mode. You can also show/hide the visibility, colors and component level of the objects. Graph editor shows the curve of each attribute for animation and it doesn’t matter whether it is for translation, rotation and scaling purpose. Graph editor is an important feature of Maya animation that deals with curves for creating or breaking the animation. The video tutorial’s link is given in the end which leads you to video tutorial where you can watch the visual concept of graph editor’s function for 3D animation.

This video tutorial is about how to use deformer in Maya animation. The animation is generated with the help of character modeling. So we can say that characters are important for 3d animation. There are several ways of animation but general and most useable method is with key frame setting. You can create and control animation with set driven keys. The object or still characters can be moved with simple key frames setting. There animation creating tools and commands are located on the lower side of workspace. At first, the key frames are with default setting so it is better for you to adjust the key frame setting at first according to the requirement of your scene. The changing in the position of any body or object can be seen easily on timeline. Once you created the animation then you can play it using radio button system at the straight way with key frame setting. The following tutorial is about deformers in animation in Maya, when you are going to create animation in 3d s max, then you use modifier instead of deformers.

Deformers also work like modifier and we use then for modifying of object and then animation. These deformers are built-in Maya and We have many types of deformers in Maya. For example the most popular type is non-linear deformers as you will see in this tutorial. Other deformers are very special as well, such as lattice deformer, cluster deformer, soft modification deformer, jiggles deformer, and much more. The deformers not only control the main object but also control subdivision and component level of object.

This tutorial is describing here about set driven key in Maya and also about how to use it in Maya modeling scene. The set driven key is added to Maya just for the guidance of the users for assigning keys for animation and modeling. If you are learning Maya without any instructor, then join our site. This site is itself instructor of Maya because of its huge collection of Maya modeling and animation. All the desired concept and models are available here with complete process of how to make and how to create. Set driven key is a huge command in Maya. This is not only a simple command but it is complete feature in any sense. We control the attributes of objects with set driven keys. It’s so comprehensive and rich tool.

We use the attribute of some object as driver who drives the attributes of the other object with set driven key command. Take an example of ball and door animation. We are required to animate the ball toward door and when it touched the door, the door should open and ball can go through out the door. We can open the door only in such condition if we apply set driven commands in our scene. This tutorial is just a quick review over set driven key command and its video tutorial is linked at the lower side and you can get access to video tutorial by opening it into new window. There you can find the concept of set driven key in Maya scene practically.

You will learn through this tutorial about key frames setting and graph editor. The key frames and graph editor is two major function using in 3d animation. This 3d animation is useful for video game developing and 3d movies. In this lesson you will learn how to assign key frames setting as well as how to manage the setting using graph editor. Although it is basic concept for 3d animation but still few people know about its proper use and proper stage. Here on this site you can learn about all kind of concepts about 3d modeling and animation. The learning technique is appreciable because here we are teaching you about each and every concept of 3d modeling and animation with step by step method.
The key frame setting is located on the bottom side of the user interface and it is primary lesson for all the users to learn how to use key frames in traditional animation method. There are number of key frames there and it offers you to adjust key frame for starting and ending point of your animation. There is proper radio button system in the straight way of key frame setting which allows you to play the animation to show the final result. So this was the traditional key frame setting process for 3d animation in 3d s max. The graph editor helps us to show our animated scene and can control it graphically. For this purpose you should have an ability to describe the graph. The graph shows all the three attributes of the scene and we can modify the location of the object by slightly moving ahead or backward. We see the changing in the position of the object clearly because of graph curve setting. This curve setting is not limited to move, scale and rotation of the object, we can either change them for motion, rotation and scaling of the object. This is just an overview on this concept, proper video tutorial link is attached which opens into another window where you can get the desired information about 3d modeling and animation.

This Tutorial will demonstrate how to speed up object in Motion Path for Animation in Maya.
This is another tutorial on the subject of animation which helps to show you how to animate the object in path with speed. It will also show you how to increase the speed where object started moving slowly. The 3d animation is one of the best techniques using for 3d modeling in any movies or games, animation is actually name of creating illusion of motion in still characters. The character can move with key frames application, you can see the changing in object movement setting along with time line setting. The key frames can be set according our own project scenario. The same technique is applied for 3d modeling, for film making and in cartoon. You can learn from this site about animation of object at specific path with speed up in Maya. The same concept is being revised in this tutorial, select the object and go to channel box. Under the input groups, choose motion path then choose U values. Check the U values on different frames. You will see U values are different at different frames.
Always left click to drag the timeline setting, the object will move.Otherwise hold the middle mouse button will affect on object motion. Now change the values at different frames in U values to make it faster when it moves. After this you can check the key fames affects and you see that object move faster then previous configuration. This technique is applied in any scene when you are required to faster or slower the object in the scene.

This free Maya video tutorial will explain how to animate a 3d book or diary pages in Maya.
Learn here about animation techniques and skill using book pages in Maya. The animation is very easy for the learners if they are familiar to key frames application. The key frames setting causes for animation. As for concerned this tutorial, you must have already book modeling for animation, otherwise first create the book modeling and then use for animation.
This site is teaching you about every kind of concept about animation, modeling, rendering and texturing. You will find all kind of stuff here with detail. The book can be designed with the NURBS primitives and choosing planes. Adjust the size and modify the shape for bringing the actual shape. Now turn the main menu as animation and go to skeleton to create joints for the model. Now select the plane and with shift select joints and go to bind option to bind them mutually. To make the lengthy animation, increase the number of frames up to 100 in range slider box. Next you can use transforming tool to move or turn the pages, otherwise go to channel box and here change the values for turning the page of book with respect to their co-ordinates. Assign key frames there and then play the animation. You will see the page turning like a real page.The video is showing same process visually for better understanding.

This Free Video Tutorial will explain how to control animations with Graph Editor in Maya.
Maya provides us a great facility to enhance and control our animation with Graph editor. Graph Editor shows animation curves in different colors. When we animate an object, actually we keyframe its attributes in Maya. Keyframing means setting up keys on specific frames, and attribute of object means the different characteristics of an object such as its 3 dimensional coordinates of movement, scale and rotation, as well as its visibility, its color, or its component level’s attributes and much more. We assign a key on some specific frame for object’s attributes and in this way we actually capture a snapshot of our object’s current position at specific frame.
Graph Editor shows the curve for each attribute’s animation, which maybe translation, scale rotation or something else. Graph Editor in Maya is powerful feature which allows us to break or add keys at specific frames with specific values. We can control and enhance the animation with Graph Editor.

This Free Video Tutorial will explain how to control animations with Graph Editor in Maya.
Maya provides us a great facility to enhance and control our animation with Graph editor. Graph Editor shows animation curves in different colors. When we animate an object, actually we keyframe its attributes in Maya. Keyframing means setting up keys on specific frames, and attribute of object means the different characteristics of an object such as its 3 dimensional coordinates of movement, scale and rotation, as well as its visibility, its color, or its component level’s attributes and much more. We assign a key on some specific frame for object’s attributes and in this way we actually capture a snapshot of our object’s current position at specific frame.
Graph Editor shows the curve for each attribute’s animation, which maybe translation, scale rotation or something else. Graph Editor in Maya is powerful feature which allows us to break or add keys at specific frames with specific values. We can control and enhance the animation with Graph Editor.

This Free Video Tutorial will explain how to control animations with Graph Editor in Maya.

Maya provides us a great facility to enhance and control our animation with Graph editor. Graph Editor shows animation curves in different colors. When we animate an object, actually we keyframe its attributes in Maya. Keyframing means setting up keys on specific frames, and attribute of object means the different characteristics of an object such as its 3 dimensional coordinates of movement, scale and rotation, as well as its visibility, its color, or its component level’s attributes and much more. We assign a key on some specific frame for object’s attributes and in this way we actually capture a snapshot of our object’s current position at specific frame.
Graph Editor shows the curve for each attribute’s animation, which maybe translation, scale rotation or something else. Graph Editor in Maya is powerful feature which allows us to break or add keys at specific frames with specific values. We can control and enhance the animation with Graph Editor.