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1. Re: Beginner Questions on Animation in Maya

   

   Reply by AdrianST · Sep 2014 · Home› General Discussion

   I've animated in 3DSMax before so I know the basics of keyframe animation. I'm mainly a programmer and am trying to delve into the art side of game development to work on my project. I have heard Maya is best for animation, though I don't know what in particular puts it above 3DS Max. One of my main reasons for using Maya…

2. Beginner Questions on Animation in Maya

   

   Topic by AdrianST · Sep 2014 · Home› General Discussion

   Hello all. I am just beginning to get into animating in Maya. Actually to be honest, its my first time using Maya at all. I grabbed a model (.dae) format from models-resource which is already rigged and was hoping to practice some things with it. Well the first problem I encountered was that the skin targets/controllers…

3. Re: Beginner Questions on Animation in Maya

   

   Reply by Brian "Panda" Choi · Sep 2014 · Home› General Discussion

   We'll need more specifics. Do you literally just want to animate in a 3D package of some sort? Or rig AND animate? Or just animation in Maya, including using curves, keyframing, etc? As well, I want to ask what's you're background coming into all of this?

4. Re: Beginner Questions on Animation in Maya

   

   Reply by antweiler · Sep 2014 · Home› General Discussion

   With a collada (.dae) model, all you could get is a mesh, that is skinned to a skeleton. This is not a proper rig, unless you want to animate all bones directly. It could be, that your bones are displayed to big. In this case, either select your bones and check the radius settings or go to Display -> animation -> Joint…