From the course: Moving from Blender to Maya: Learn a Layered Animation Workflow
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Animating using a layered workflow
From the course: Moving from Blender to Maya: Learn a Layered Animation Workflow
Animating using a layered workflow
(upbeat music) - Let's talk workflow. The layered animation workflow is something that I didn't have a lot of exposure to when I was in school. It's more common now to know about it, but it's still not very well explained in a lot of places. Pose-to-pose is really common, you have your key poses and your anticipations and your breakdowns and that kind of stuff. But when it comes to a layered workflow, first, I want to point out what it's not. When I say layered workflow, first thing people usually think is, oh, animation layers, right, I've heard of those. A layered workflow and animation layers, while very similar, are different. If I have something in Maya, I'll just take this cube, I'll set a key with the button S, come over here, hit S again, and then move it over there. Now I have some animation. Hooray. If I go over to the animation menu area over here on the right, there's nothing in this window. There is always something there, it's just invisible 'cause we're not using the…
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