For our next tutorial in Maya, we were given a few small tasks which involved animating. I have not previously animated in Maya before, but I actually found it quite fun!
First we were given a scene which presented a pendulum like shown above. Our task was to make it swing, remembering the principles of easing in and easing out. But first we had to set our animation format up...
We had to change the playback from 'Real time' to 24fps, and then adjust our start frame, end frame and actual frame rate. We worked in 24 frames per second, and therefore made 2 seconds of animation equalling at 2 seconds. Once I had this set up, I found it much easier to remember for future projects.
We also had to change the render settings, so that the outcome would be in .JPEG and would start with 00, so the result would be 001, 002, 003, etc...
After everything was set up, to animation I chose frame number one and changed the rotation of the pendulum and pressed 'S' which meant that the frame would be set, and stay in that position. Therefore at frame 24 I could then rotate the pendulum in the opposite direction, set it again and do the same for frame 48. This is my final result:
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