Today was my first tutorial in Maya, learning the basics of moving and rotating a character model. This included using the controls on the character to adjust the body for example, making the body squish down for more of a ‘bouncing’ effect.

This was my first experience in animating in Maya and it was more straightforward in learning than I initially expected. I was able to learn key framing very quickly in Maya and I developed basic movements for the character whilst still learning the skills.

Furthermore, this first initial tutorial into Maya was really useful as I had no experience in Maya prior to this and the subject was explained really well. The tutorial was broken down into where everything is in Maya, what keys or short cuts to use and how to animate efficiently.

Finally, I plan to use what I learnt during this tutorial to practise animating in 3D. I aim to redo these basic animations to make them more interesting and improve on the movements and key framing.