Animating in Maya for Beginners (Fun and easy!)

A quick and fun project to learn Maya!

Animating in Maya for beginners should be fun and easy - no more boring navigation tutorials! In this beginner Maya tutorial, we'll learn how to use Maya animation software using a free Gumroad rig for Maya: the juicebox rig.

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JD Juicebox Rig:

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00:00 Intro
00:19 Downloading the rig
00:51 Opening your rig
02:10 Quick navigation tutorial
03:20 Selection sets
05:07 Animation - Working clean
06:10 Explore the rig
09:09 Pose your character
11:41 Our second pose
14:01 Resize your timeline
16:45 Break it down!
23:30 Fix your animation
24:15 A very embarassing outro
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[dcoach]

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[knightofbrokenglass]

bro - you're really good at this. It's not easy to be knowledgeable, informative, affable and perfectly paced all at the same time. I'd almost suspect you're a trained actor working as a teacher. well done mate.

[palomimita]

This is so complete, entertaining and useful! 🙏

[MM-qfyl]

You saved my life during finals, thank you!

[rishikeshjaiswal]

Absolutely brilliant for people as well who are familiar with Maya!

[dkeel]

best tutorial, like when I tried to open it I only could move the things from the rig parts like spine, not the actual rig, I hope you understand it bc I can't explain, but found your channel bc of this juicebox and subsriced rn with the notifications turned on, great vid, thanks

[ruthca]

I love your videos, you are great at teaching. Thanks for sharing 😊

[sorreal]

super underrated, thank u so much for making this video!!! u earned a sub

[gcs]

Nice, best tutorial i found. Thank You

[theautisticartist]

thank you! I'm going to cover this eventually but honestly I just want to start animating already ykyk like I've got 3 years free might as well use all of em
and this is fun :D

[CarlosKustraCarriles]

This video saved me, thank you so much!!

[timothyhenry]

Hold W and left click to get to object as well

[TheLloydinator]

Super cool video man, any good rigging videos you would suggest if you did want to play around with that in maya?

[samtoney]

im interested in learning maya particularly for animation, do you think it would be wise to learn other things like modelling too?

[yarg]

\Thank you for showing tools setting window. I could not figure out how to change axis orientation to world axis! For some reason could not find an answer when googling.

[TheBludes]

Thank you for this! Really helpful! However I am confused to when to press 's' to set a keyframe. Don't I have to press it after my pose is done? Otherwise my progress is lost when I change keyframes, right?

[bloodorangee]

Awesome tutorial! I have a question though, I tried to set my keyframes but when I playback my animation nothing moves, it just stays in the last position I set it in. Any idea why this is happening?