3D Animation for the Raw Beginner Using Autodesk Maya 2e, 2nd Edition

Chapter 7

Animation

Particle Dynamics, Collisions, Forces, Blend Shape, Key-framing, Skeletons, and Scripting

With examples: A keyframed camera in an orangerie, a moving mouth, the bones of a simple leg, the bones of a simple fish, a human skeleton and skin, balls colliding with a bowl, rain hitting the ground, a car hitting the blocks of a wall, a car smashing a wall into fragments, a door rotating and closing to a sound, a car on a motion path, using Vue to create natural terrain, hair moving in a wind, a Cinema 4D motion graphics bomb, and Houdini water and fire.

This chapter looks at adding motion to a scene. Maya supports a very broad range of tools for animation: keyframing, skeletons, particle and rigid object physics, fields (such ...