How To Animate Maya

hey everybody. my name's matt and i'm speakingto you on behalf of expert village. as i said earlier you can also animate with maya. youcan animate pretty much anything that you can select and a lot of cases even more. downhere at the bottom is your time-line. you can click and drag your cursor through thereand if you come down you can also zoom in and out on your time-line using this bar righthere. and you can, over here, select how many

How To Animate Maya, frames are in your animation. i'm going toselect 90. so there's, i have 3 seconds worth of animation. to actually animate, all youhave to do is select and object you want to animate. i'll select the box with the caton it. make sure that this key over here is lit. that's your auto key frame toggle. makesure that, that's red. i'm going to select

my box and hit the s key on my keyboard thatsets a key. then i'm going to move to where i want my box to be. i'm going to go to 90,that's the 90th frame and i'm going to select the box and move it. that automatically setsa key frame. as i scroll you can see the box move along through space. you can also dothis for rotation as well as scale. and like i said you can animate pretty much anything.i'm going to select my light there, set a key frame and rotate that around. as you cansee they both animate now. another thing you can do to get greater control over your animationis; go up to window and animation editor and there is a couple of different views you canuse. i'm going to select graph editor and you can see kind of a graph of your animationfor each object. i have my spotlight selected

right now and you can select the differentend points and you can edit the curves by selecting a point on the curve. make sureyou use your middle mouse button and you can adjust the curves accordingly.