Animation Mentor Orientation

Get The most out of AM

• Be active in the community, by checking out student work and leaving comments.
• Start off with positive feedback and then follow up with improvements.
• Try to post 5 comments per week, it will sharpen your skills. The more that you participate, the more you will get out of it.
• Learn from others, by adding buddies to your buddy list, kind of like facebook or twitter.
• Check out Q n A replays, Guest speakers, over the shoulder critiques.
• Submit your work before the deadline.

 Purchasing Maya

•  Go to Academic Programs you ill see a Maya link only if you paid your class.
• Create an Autodesk login then get software from Animation mentor Link.

 Cruise the Campus

 Your Workspace

 Video standartdation

• Download the 12 frames of silence, transition blank.
• Paste it at the end of your asseinment.
• File / Export / save to to desktop
• Set to Quicktime Movie / Codec HH.264 / Frame rate 24fps / Quality High
• Resolution Size 480x360
• Sound Settings - AAC / Stereo Left Right / 48 kHz

Live Q&A

•  Lecture and Assignments,
• Character and Tools

Submit your Work

•  Assiments are due 12 noon on Sunday. Give yourself an hour to upload.
• Use the correct video standardization.
• Turn in your assessment by, selecting browse and selecting "quick-time file". Leave a note to your mentor, to give them an understanding on what you have done so far.

Technical support

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----------------------- Maya Training Notes-----------------------

Maya Hotkeys

• Spacebar - max/ min windows
• F - Zoom - Customize Maya (z)
• Shift F - Zoom all windows
• Q - Selector
• W - Translate
• E - Rotate
• R - Scale
• 4 - Wireframe view
• 5 - Shaded view
• Shift W - Add Translation Key - Can't customize Max
• Shift E - Add Rotation Key - Can't customize Max
• Shift R - Add Scale Key - Can't customize Max
• S - Add key on Frame - Customize Max
• , and . - Stepping through animation - Customize Maya Alt (, and ; )
• Alt , and . - Stepping through Key Frames - Customize Maya (, and ')
• Alt V - Play animation - Customize Maya ( / )
• (+ and -) change the size of Axis
• ([ and]) switch views back and forth
• P - parent object to object
• Shift P - unparent
• Ctrl D - Duplicate objects
• H - hide unselected objects - Customize Max
• Shift H - unhide all - Customize Max
• Kiko Favoite View ports (L R F T K)
• create new script - switchModelView Perspective;create new script - switchModelView top;create new script - switchModelView side;create new script - switchModelView front;
• Ctrl C - copykey option
• Ctrl V - pastekey option

Graph Editor

• Middle mouse - moves keys
  
• Shift middle mouse - moves keys on locked values

Max to Maya workarounds

• Autoback Save - https://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/autodesk-maya-2010/where-maya-2010-saves-the-autobackup-files/
• On Max, inbetween 2 keys you can right click on a time and drag it to another time, it will create a key based off the pose from selected timeframe. Maya does the same this with middle mouse button.