Study Task 4 - Maya 5: Animation basics

In this Maya session we learned how to animate using keyframes and the graph editor. I was initially trying to animate the squash and stretch of a ball bounce by directly changing the size and dimensions of the sphere until we were shown how to use the squash property, though I think I need more practice playing around with this function because it ended up looking a lot less natural than my manual method. Given more time I would fix this.

What worked well:

• The motion was very fluid

What could be improved:

• Altering the easing and the values of the squash at certain points to make the movement look more natural