Moana 2: How Disney Animates with Autodesk Maya

How does Disney Animation's Moana franchise use Autodesk Maya to create award winning animation?

Learn how the award winning movie franchise utilizes Autodesk Maya and industry workflows with keyframe animation, rigging, and more!

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Timestamps

00:01 How Maya is used for animation in the Oscar-Winning Disney franchise sequel Moana 2
00:46 Pre-Production: Animation Tests & Layout
01:55 Maya Animation: Library Cycles
02:22 2D Animation: Mixing CG & Traditional Styles
02:37 Maya Autodesk 3D Animation & Video Reference
04:21 Class Creatives Masterclass Access
05:14 Hei Hei & Pua: Animation Personality Tests
06:40 Unique Characters: Kakamora & Fish Bill Animation Tests
08:08 Water VFX
09:05 Production Shot Planning
10:12 Storyboarding: Story Planning & Animation
11:36 Conclusion

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[PandaJerk]

Cool to see how Disney creates these gorgeous movies!

[JosephKizza-jy]

I loved this video. Well explained. Thank you, good sir.

[triceratops]

7:35 the "WHAT." made me laugh

[dumisanimacdonald]

Having watched this video, l really appreciate the effort that is put behind for us to enjoy the final product. Thank you for sharing this

[faithminic]

Great video, but the title is misleading - you did now explain how Disney animates with Maya, you just explained how they animate in general - aka, this is just a big "animation pipeline" video. Expectations were just set wrong, that's all. Great explanation of the general animation pipeline (for any and all programs used), though! I may have misunderstood the title.

[TheLillianYoung]

Not bLeNdeR? 😂 Lately I’ve felt that my 24+ years of Maya knowledge was obsolete. I was inspired to take Maya in college thanks to Toy Story. Now this? I’m inspired all over again. I love using Maya.

[vilmalazzarini]

disney should re-imagining Thumbelina 1994 in CGI animation with sabrina carpenter as the voice of thumbelina, Alex Aiono as the voice of prince cornelius, Daphne Rubin-Vega as Mrs toad, Lin Manuel miranda as Jacquimo, Blake Roman as Berkeley Beetle and Sarah Stiles as Mrs Fieldmouse✨🧚‍♀

[dark-flame-master]

I'm working on an ambitious animation short film, and this video has given me ideas as well as filled me with inspiration. Thanks.

[shivangipriya]

in what program they use for make the color very nice for character ??

[arakudrawing]

I Can Make This 😢 is very dificult . the detail. the tools. and other. And Time

[official_tmr]

Is it really that much powerful software? I was thinking for Blender

[official_tmr]

So they tracked motions from reference footages or they animated by their own

[Papioch]

Oh, I thought Disney has their own animation system just like Pixar

[ThePine-App]

I think if you cant afford to buy a software use Blender to learn aimation. Its that simple. Do what you can do at the beginning.

[arturl]

Iti is public knowledge that Disney do not use Autodesk Maya for animation, they ahv etheir own inhouse software,

[magicbansa]

u mean no mocap was used in the animation.

[DrawingReal]

Great vid. Great artists. I don’t care for the story and the characters personality. I feel that when a world is too magical it bores me, because nothing is impossible then.

[alicesacco]

When not rendered it looks... not so great. Interesting.

[annamariasophie]

Why does every animation. Company use Maya like why

[ithurtsbecauseitstrue]

Modern Disney is basically a woke college classroom. They suck now. Moana 1 sucked let alone 2