IN3D Week11 Lab1

Exercise 1
http://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/2011help/index.html

Process

Setting keyframes by pressing the shortcut 's'.

Using the graph editor

Always press the move tool, then use the middle mouse button to move the tangent.

My Translate X is in a funny shaped line.

In order to make it a straight line: Either delete the middle points OR Break Tangent then press on Linear Tangent.

For the valley of the curves of Translate Y, it should be sharp, so it is necessary to do the same way as Translate X which is to break tangent and click on linear tangent

Here's the video after using Window > Playblast to save it.

Exercise 2

Use what you have learned in Exercise 1 to create a Maya animation of your bouncing ball from Week 1.

Just focus on the timing, so don’t worry about adding squash and stretch – you’ll do that in the next lab.

Reflection

The assigning keyframes part is easy, just positioning the ball and set key. It was the part whereby adjusting the graph with the graph editor which is difficult to understand.