July 8, 2015 Workshop 19 Notes

PATH ANIMATION AND BLENDING

1. This workshop is developed after the on-line tutorials provided by Autodesk, and refers to specific pages in the accompanying PDF file.
2. Load the setup file into a working folder on your local hard drive from the classes folder

Arch5422-Mark-SUM2014/examples/pathanimation/PathAnim.mb.

3, From within Maya, follow the Autodesk tutorial, pages 241 through 261. This covers attaching the airplane to the motion path, keyframing its position along it at various frames, and controlling its rotation. It descibes editing the animation through the Graph Editor". It also describes blending the motion path with separate key frames of the airplane.
4. The resulting animation will appear as follows:

fully rendered path animation (select to play movie)	playblast animation (the object of the exercise - select to play)

4. You may wish to Getting Started with Maya site from Autodesk for other tutorial materials. This web site also contains tutorial files for Maya.