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[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...
[1] Introduction After you model the surfaces that make up a human, animal, or other character, you create a skeleton and bind it to the character’s surface (called skin). A skeleton provides a structure for animating the character. When you create a...
A typical 3D character can be made up of many surfaces and components. To ensure that the character animates in the way that you want, it is important to carefully plan the process of character setup. Character setup or rigging is the general term us...
[1] Introduction Inverse Kinematics (IK) allows you to efficiently pose your models and characters for animation. You pose the skeleton by positioning IK handles, usually located at the end of an IK joint chain (for example at the hand). The rotatio...
[1] Introduction Path animation allows you to animate an object along a path specified by a curve. In this way, the curve controls the motion of the object. With keyframe animation, Maya calculates the motion of the object for the animation based on...
[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...
