Digital-Tutors : Animating with Props in Maya 2011 | .flv | +Project Files | 281Mb

Lesson Outline (5 lessons)

In this collection of lessons we will learn about prop animation.

This course covers tools and techniques for animating props in Maya. We'll discuss methods that are animator-friendly for prop animation. We'll learn how to animate constrained objects, how to blend smoothly between our space-switches as we keyframe a constraint's weight, and we'll even explore at technique for switching between spaces with no offset. At the end of this course, you'll have the knowledge you need to overcome the challenges of prop animation.

1. Introduction and project overview

3. A cleaner workflow for animating constrained objects

5. Space-switching without the offset

2. How to approach prop animation

4. Rigging props for complex animation