Body Mechanics - Maya Beginner's Animation Tutorial | In 5 simple steps

Body Mechanics - Maya Beginner's Animation Tutorial | In 5 simple steps

This tutorial teaches you the basics of body mechanics concept and how to create a fun animation using Bony rig with a breakdown in 5 simple steps guide walkthrough. By going through this tutorial , you have some fundamentals of understanding on how prepare references, set keys , setting up key poses poses , creating in between, adjust animation keys in Graph Editor to fine tune the smoothness of animation.

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Here's the rig I'm using :

Reference Video:

Music that I'm using:
The Jam - Slynk & Mr Stabalina

▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

0:00 - Intro
00:40 - Getting Reference
01:05 - Setting up the basic standing pose
02:42 - Create a quick selection button
04:45 - Defining Key Poses
07:00 - Start Setting Key Poses
10:40 - Building Box Dummy
11:50 - Continue with Key Pose
15:50 - Setting In Between Keys
18:30 - Graph Editor
20:20 - Hips tweaking

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21:00 - Finalizing
22:12 - Finishing & End Smooth Playback

[joaoloureiro]

This is saving my animation unit at Uni. Thanks so much.

[courin_coco]

this tutorial is saving my back!! thanks for sharing those steps

[SelfExpressionArts]

Yeah, it could be little bit an old video but the principle works all the time. Thanks for the video.

[nickid]

Keep on sharing with new move, really Helpful 😊❤

[draft]

Not sure if you have an updated video but you should also teach using animation layers. I put all my keyframe poses in one layer and all my inbetweens in another. Gives it more of a non destrutive flow imo. You can also turn on and off the layer to see the difference. I believe all the programs have them now. To me Its a life/time saver especially if you make a mistake or want to try something new or different and dont want to ruin your keyframes. When your happy you can bake down the layers and clean up your keys from there.

[Ndugid]

Amazing work my friend. Am happy I found this channel.

[ryo]

thank you so much that's really helpful. but If you could show us how you did the rigging because it's so good and thanks again 👍👍👍👍

[gangasonar]

Hi sir, would request can you make one video on animating creature using bouncing ball...(the layout and blocking ) thankyou

[skweech]

I'm installing maya now, I appreciate the tutorial! Idk why I am nervous tho lol. I am used to blender, and I can tell that the layout itself is a little different with maya

[jenarts]

Could u explain the difference between IK and FK and why both were commonly using ¿

[siddheekame]

Love the tutorial. But when I was following along, the rig I downloaded doesn't have that mitten-like control to move the hand. I think it is because when I opened the rig in MAya 2019, it said that had mental ray nodes that weren't imported apparently. Do you have any solution for this? I tried downloading the Nvidia Plug-in but they stopped making those after Maya 2018.

[shubham]

Please tell me where to use body main control

[samgamerx]

As a begineer, I learned a lot form this video😃😃😃! But I want to ask something😅😅..
basically, i am learning animation in 3d..and it seems interesting to me...i like it and i am thinking to build a career in it. But basically what i have realised till now is that...for example.. to animate a character doing a bakflip or something...i have two options...either to set out the entire poses on our own..and for this anyone needs a very good knowledge of body mechanics and would be a long way...but this is time consuming and also at the same time...the results can be really good...we can also achieve age old tom and jerry like organic animations....and the other way of animating a backlip, we can just find a video reference... set keyframes and just set poses as per reference...this will also turn out amazing but is this not a cheating?

[sayantanchakraborty]

how you import video reference in maya?pls

[natiqraza]

I have a question, when i animate im told to move the character around with the main controller like the one below the character. Why did you not do it here?

[HridayaJain]

Need to submit it today please help me

[Aschended]

Can someone explain how he do this? 20:45 is like merge 2 keys

[craftykidharsh]

Hey, how you mange a problem which I face with xp pen deco. after work when i plug out usb connected to deco, it then loss all its settings done by me. When I connect it again, I then have to again set my settings manually which is quite annoying. Plz help me in this topic.

[HarshKumar-rfzz]

Hello, I needed some help after purchasing xp pen deco 01 V2 from Amazon, how can I claim warranty.
They say to register your product on xp pen website .

[mrabcd]

OSAM YOU HAVE COVRED MULTIPLE DOUBTS IN 0NE VIDEO