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If you wants to learn some basic animation technique in maya then this tutorial may help you. In this tutorial I am going to discus the simplest way to accomplish the reciprocating engine mechanism with using simple expressions and constrains.
In this tutorial you will learn to create a flag using soft bodies.
Hand keying steady cam effects can be a drag, and we used to have to set up complex soft-body rigs to simulate it. Here is a way to set up a dynamic camera utilizing Maya's dynamic curves that's fast, easy, and fun. These steps assume that you have a basic knowledge of Autodesk Maya 8 and up and know basic terms (like dynamic simulation) and tasks (like renaming nodes and parenting) so we can keep this article small.
Using the Motion Path with camera, you can set the camera target by the path
and you can make smooth rotation of camara view.
Keyframes can be set directly to CV and Vertices,but using cluster deformer
you can easily set the keyframes to the group of CV and Vertices.
In this tutorial I will be showing you how to use, and learn basic dynamics such as a basic collision between a gravitationally pulled object, and a passive rigid body..
4 methods of animtion to transmit rotation on Z axis to rotation on X axis.
The basic usage of the Graph Editor,changing tangents,breaking tangents,repeating animation curve.
In this tutorial we're going to see the making eyelid rig with driven keys and expressions
This is last series from Nonlinear Deformer series. Wave deformer hardly suited for making animation expanding ring of ripple. To apply wave I recommend that you to apply high resolution object.
Now we will learn about Twist Deformer. Twist is tool which very simple among other nonlinear deformers. Actually I seldom apply twist for modeling or animation. But I have example using twist for modeling and hopefully this example earns good for you.
After you studies Sine Deformer now it's the time studies Squash Deformer. Same as Sine deformer I have not experience using squash for modeling, so I don't have modeling tutorial for Squash Deformer.
After studying Bend and Flare Deformer now it's the moment learning Sine. Differs from Flare Deformer, where I apply Flare just for modeling (has not got idea to apply Flare for animation). For Sine, I only apply Sine just for animation, but possible Sine applicable to assist modeling process (I have never tried applies Sine for modeling).
At this tutorial we will learn how to using Flare Deformer for modeling.
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