Animation

Animation is the process of creating a continuous motion and shape change illusion by means of the rapid display of a sequence of static images that minimally differ from each other. The illusion as in motion pictures in general is thought to rely on the phi phenomenon.

Animations can be recorded on either analogue media, such as a flip book, motion picture film, video tape, or on digital media, including formats such as animated GIF, Flash animation or digital video.

To display it, a digital camera, computer, or projector are used. Animation creation methods include the traditional animation creation method and those involving stop motion animation of two and three-dimensional objects, such as paper cutouts, puppets and clay figures.

Images are displayed in a rapid succession, usually 24, 25, 30, or 60 frames per second.

Course Content:

• Animation basics
• Overview of key frame animation
• Introduction to timeline and playback controls
• Setting up Maya preferences for animation
• Setting key frame in Maya
• Auto keying
• Holding time by middle mouse dragging
• Manipulating keys on timeline
• customizing display tics on the time line
• Intro to graph editor
• Manipulating keys in graph editor
• Copying and pasting keys
• Working with f curves and various interpolations
• Working with buffer curves
• Modifying tangent handle and analyzing the result
• Breaking tangents
• Modifying keys proportionally
• Cycling the animation and crating seamless cycles
• Motion path animation
• Baking animation
• Working with camera
• Animating cameras*
• Target camera
• Animating target camera along a path
• Intro to trax editor
• Animation using set driven key
• Play blasting your animations
• setting your animation for batch rendering