Maya Crane Project - Lesson 1 - Make the Crane with Polygons

This first lesson (of 5 ) shows you how to create a simple crane for the following four lessons on:how to use Parenting, the joint tool, Inverse Kinematics, control objects, Annotations, Point Constraints, Orient Constraints, limiting joint rotations, and parent constraints. The final video puts it all together in a demo on animating the crane to pick up and release an object.

Based on lesson 5, chapter 6 of Maya 7 by Alias.

Next three videos in this series:

Lesson #2: Adding Bones and IK Handle
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1&video_id=BoRUoZDX_sM&next=...

Lesson #3: IK Handle with Constraints and Joint Limits
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1&video_id=26vAT_5tEB4&next=...

Lesson #4: Set Key Frames and Parent Constraint Weights
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1&video_id=Spj8tRQ8bkM&next=...

Lesson #5 - picking up multiple objects with constraints.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRfOvShajcc

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Crane Project
• Lesson
• Rusty Stasiuk
• Russell Stasiuk
• Software Tutorial
• Autodesk Maya
• maya
• beginners
• tutorial
• how-to
• Animation
• IK Handle
• control object
• point constraint
• orient constraint
• joint rotation
• Animated
• Tips
• Cartoon
• key frame
• parent constraint weights
• Crane (machine)

[Rustystasiuk]

Thank you, Tim. I've been a teacher in a secondary school for over 30 years working with every level of student, so I guess I've mastered the technique of sharing information. But I'll let you in on a little secret: I'm no Maya expert. I teach many types of software, so I know a little bit about too many things. Never had the chance to become an expert at any! Retirement is just around the corner and I hope to get better at some! Rusty

[ArzhAngel]

I just wanted to say, that your lessons are some of the best out there - You keep it simple, and informative.

I hope to see a lot more from you, or that you are starting to sell training dvds. That are Maya, Matchmover, compoiste and after effects/ photoshop related :)

Tim