Character Setup 2: Smooth skinning[1] Introduction After you create a skeleton, you bind it with the character’s surface so that the surfaces move with the skeleton during animation. Binding is also called skinning, and a character’s surface after binding is called a skin. It is impo...Aug 20, 2025·14 min read
Animation 2: Set Driven Key[1] Introduction With keyframe animation, you key an attribute value to a time in the Time Slider. You repeat this process with different values at different times to animate the object. When you must animate multiple objects or attributes that inter...Aug 19, 2025·6 min read
Animation 1: Keyframes and the Graph Editor[1] Introduction When you set a keyframe (or key), you assign a value to an object’s attribute (for example, translate, rotate, scale, color) at a specific time. Most animation systems use the frame as the basic unit of measurement because each frame...Aug 19, 2025·19 min read
Rendering 1: Rendering a scene[1] Introduction This lesson provides a brief introduction to rendering in Maya. In this lesson, you learn how to: Assign shading materials to surfaces in the scene. Edit the color of shading materials. Apply simple textures to shading materials....Aug 19, 2025·21 min read
RenderingIn Maya, rendering refers to the process of creating bitmap images of your scene based on the various shading, lighting, and camera attributes that you set. When rendering, Maya takes into account all of the various objects and scene attributes, and ...Aug 19, 2025·2 min read
Polygon Texturing 3: Normal mapping[1] Introduction Normal mapping is a technique in which you use a high resolution mesh to generate a map for a low resolution mesh. High resolution meshes are made of more complicated geometry and can be very taxing in an environment where resources...Aug 19, 2025·6 min read
Polygon Texturing 2: UV unfolding[1] Introduction While texturing a flat object is fairly straightforward, texturing an object with curves can pose some unique problems. How do you paint a 2D texture on a curved surface? How do you deal with a texture warping over bumps and grooves...Aug 19, 2025·19 min read
