Introduction to Maya Animation

This free tutorial will brief you about some basic concept of animatin in Maya. Moreover here we shall discuss about animation menu, preference and key frame setting. Maya contains variety of effects for animation and it offers you to create modeling of character and then prepare for animation by using traditional method of animation. There are various tutorial here on this site about animation.You can get help from these tutorials. The technique is quite comprehensive therefore everyone understands it easily. You also need of just one time and then you can perform it yourself afterward. The preference setting deals as control room for animation where you can do setting for your scene animation.

This is general way of animation through key frame setting besides them, there are various ways of animation,such as key frame setting, motion path animation, set driven key and so on. When you are at primary stage of learning, you are taught about simple animation techniques of key frame setting. It is quite easy to use, you have to just position your character or object and then assign key frame for it. The key frame setting can be handled by putting the values for initial and ending stage. Once you have assigned the key frames, then you can watch you applied animation by playing with radio button system in the straight way of key frame application. The rest of animation procedure will be discussed in next parts.