Intro to Maya: Lesson 9 / 10 - Animating your rocket

In this lesson, we use what we learned in lessons 7 and 8 to animate your rocket taking off and landing on the moon!

Specifically, this tutorial will teach you about:
00:00 - Keyframe animation
01:38 - The 12 principles of animation (specifically: anticipation, follow through, squash and stretch, exaggeration, timing, and arc)
03:14 - Squash deforming
05:28 - Retiming keyframes
07:40 - Curve drawing
08:30 - Motion paths

Created in Maya 2020

[Autodesk_Maya]

--> Next Lesson: Finishing your rocket

[meanmachine]

For those that are trying to select the Constrain tab at the top, make sure that you are in Animation mode. You can change the mode from Modeling to Animation by going to the top left of the screen, below the word file, select the drop-down list where it says Modeling. Select Animation and then your Constrain tab should be there. Hope this helps someone. Additionally, to make the rocket squash down at the very beginning, make sure to change to the pivot point of the rocket by selecting the move tool and select D. Move the point level with the tips of the rocket at the bottom. Hope this also helps too.

[writtenbyjordan]

whenever I add a new vertex to the bezzier for the landing, the rocket won't follow it. what do i do?

[JDSH]

This is really great tutorial, gave me more than any other clip I've watched so far about animating in Maya. Thank you so much!

[MarioLPiazza]

Great! Better than some lessons i've paid for!

[LhadyCamilleAying]

Hi I tried to use maya and learn through your videos, and it's great! but somehow when I tried to click both rocket and the curves and tried to use the constraint, the error is "rocket.translateX already has an input connection." sorry for my english haha

[Lync]

Now I know this is Brad Pebbler instructing. Brad will you ever come back to Modo or is it a part of your past and you've moved on?

[alecbunting]

I am unsure why, but even after using rocket aim, my rocker is not facing the locator after the 24th frame.

[justcallmetoki]

I'm doing something wrong on every single step.... why does deleting history remove all the colors on my rocket.... These videos were really hard to follow for me :( Im giving up on this part.

[sijusebenezer]

iF THIS WAS USEFUL?....SIR IT WAS REALLY A GREAT VIDEO U OFFERED TO US!!! THANKS A LOT

[haslover]

Whenever I click to another key frame the camera resets position. It also happens when I press the playback button for the animation, it just zooms in to default camera position and zoom so I can’t view it from zoomed out, I must see it flash by. I’ve tried locking the camera and that doesn’t work either

[jeonin]

why is it that everytime i move my rocket the textures get messed up? how do i fix this? bc i dunno how am i going to animate the rocket if i can't even move it, pls help!!

[awesomeboss]

This stuff looks so cool! I can't wait to learn! 🤩

[Autodesk_Maya]

*New* Check out the video description for a link to the scene files used!

[hunillafodor]

Thank you so much for your genius help in navigating this great world. I am stuck on the part where I am to constrain the rocket to it's bezier path I've created. The Error tab says' line 0: rocket.translatex already has an input connection. Any suggestions are appreciated!

[gzarari]

After creating a locator and doing things u said to do. the first frame and last one do not follow the locator, object rotates unnaturaly

[tejaswiacha]

Hi, iam checking for Remote access server for my laptop in autodesk maya.. Is there any possibility, pls let me know.. Tq...

[meanmachine]

My object still changes direction when I apply a locator. I have followed every step from that point and still, the object changes its rotation. please help! X(

[udeshikasahan]

I can't get constrain tab. Please inform how I got it?

[DragonNuts]

I can't believe this shit software is the industry standard when Blender is free and 1000x more user friendly