Introducing Autodesk Maya 2016: Autodesk Official Press

Chapter 9 More Animation!

Now that you have a little more animation experience, you can get into some more involved animation practices and toolsets, exploring the principles covered in this book and its examples. Animation is a long journey, and you should use this book as a stepping-off point. For everything you’re being exposed to here, there are many more techniques to discover.

1. Learning Outcomes: In this chapter, you will be able to

• Use hierarchies in animation tasks
• Create and manipulate a skeleton system for animation and group models to bones
• Create a walk cycle using forward kinematics for pose animation
• Discern the two ways—smooth and interactive—to bind a mesh to a skeleton in Maya
• Use inverse kinematics in a rig of a simple ...