Using Maya// Anticipation

 

Anticipation is something we've been taught about from week one of starting this animation course. Using keyframes, much like in after effects I placed them on the Maya timeline to create a simplistic animation that displays anticipation in movement.

Using the model I had already created today, I animated a short sequence in which the lid of the 3DS hesitates before slams shut on itself. The timeline of Maya is pretty much like the timeline in photoshop when animating, so I found it quite easy to animate. However what was knew, was that I had to set keyframes for a lot of things, such a scale and different rotations such as x & y.