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Animating Piano Key

Animating Piano Key

Animating Piano Key in Maya with Rigid Body.


Views: 1018 | Rating star | by Sarah
Maya - Animation

Domino Effect

Domino Effect

This tutorial will discuss on several issues, how to setup the geometry and how to apply passive to active key switch among them.


Views: 1011 | Rating star | by Stephen
Maya - Animation

Flipping Sosro Crown

Flipping Sosro Crown

This tutorial will discuss on several issues, how to build the geometry for the crown, how to bake rigidBody simulation, and how to adjust the result.


Views: 981 | Rating star | by Ben
Maya - Animation

Using Blend Shape for Facial Expressions

Using Blend Shape for Facial Expressions

In this file we will go over using blend shape for facial expressions. This is an extremely easy and effective way to enhance you animations.


Views: 910 | Rating star | by Tutorial
Maya - Animation

Muscle deformations and Facial Expressions

Muscle deformations and Facial Expressions

Blend Shape and Set Driven Key are two excellent tools for deformations and facial expressions. In the following file we will go over in detail how...


Views: 2818 | Rating star 5 | by Adam
Maya - Animation

Rotating Wheels on a Car

Rotating Wheels on a Car

The purpose of this handout is to show you how to rotate the wheels on a car so they follow the pace of the car as it move. By doing it this way,...


Views: 933 | Rating star | by Jason
Maya - Animation

Animation of a Ball

Animation of a Ball

In this tutorial we will animate one ball through using photogram keys and modifying the curves of animation from the Trax Editor.


Views: 929 | Rating star | by Brad
Maya - Animation

Object to Surface Constraints in Maya

Object to Surface Constraints in Maya

For this tutorial I'll be using a example of a button on a shirt, but this could be any object or group node like a belt buckle or a bug on...


Views: 977 | Rating star | by John
Maya - Animation

Dynamic camera-setup

Dynamic camera-setup

This is a setup to create a dynamic camera. 3d movements are often too perfect and lacks noise and jitters from the real world. There are several...


Views: 959 | Rating star 3 | by Daniel
Maya - Animation

The Camera Shaker

The Camera Shaker

The shaker node was designed primarily as a node to simulate the effect of camera shake.


Views: 983 | Rating star | by Adam
Maya - Animation

Setup and animation of a modeled head

Setup and animation of a modeled head

See how to make a modeled head come to life.


Views: 934 | Rating star 3 | by Colin
Maya - Animation

Animating Tank Treads

Animating Tank Treads

A Tutorial in creating a moving belt using path animation.


Views: 979 | Rating star | by Jason
Maya - Animation

Animated Wheels

Animated Wheels

Setup and animate wheels.


Views: 966 | Rating star 3 | by Steve
Maya - Animation

Anatomy of a walk

Anatomy of a walk

Let’s break down a basic walk, step by step. For clarity, I’ve animated a simple skeleton so you can see exactly how each joint moves.


Views: 990 | Rating star | by Troy
Maya - Animation

Lipsynch: Phoneme Examples

Lipsynch: Phoneme Examples

This article covers a slightly extended range of phoneme mouth shapes, based originally on the Preston Blair series.


Views: 892 | Rating star | by Marry
Maya - Animation

Lipsynch: Mouth Shapes

Lipsynch: Mouth Shapes

Example 3D mouth shapes used to do lip synching.


Views: 935 | Rating star 3 | by Slicer
Maya - Animation

Animating a Yo-Yo

Animating a Yo-Yo

This tutorial was written by Chas Jarret and invloves animating a yoyo with the attached string wrapping around the fingers of a deforming hand.


Views: 935 | Rating star | by Marry
Maya - Animation

Wing Animation

Wing Animation

This tutorial is derived from a recent work project which involved the animation of the dinosaur-bird Archaeopteryx and its distant cousin...


Views: 997 | Rating star 3 | by Sean
Maya - Animation

Arm set-up with IK/FK

Arm set-up with IK/FK

This tutorial outlines a technique which is quite handy when setting up an arm.


Views: 843 | Rating star | by Adam
Maya - Animation

Leg Skeletons in Maya

Leg Skeletons in Maya

Building leg skeletons in maya using the detached foot method.


Views: 796 | Rating star | by Amy
Maya - Animation