How to Cheat in Maya 2014

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Half Title
3. Title Page
4. Copyright Page
5. Table of Contents
6. How to Cheat and Why
7. Acknowledgments
8. How to use this book
9. 1 Animation Principles
   1. Squash and Stretch
   2. Anticipation
   3. Staging
   4. Staight Ahead/Pose to Pose
   5. Overlapping Action/Follow-through
   6. Slow In/Slow Out
   7. Arcs
   8. Secondary Action
   9. Timing
   10. Exaggeration
   11. Solid Drawing
   12. Appeal
   13. Interlude: What Is Workflow?
10. 2 Splines
    1. How Splines Work
    2. Splines and Spacing
    3. Tangent Types
    4. Tangent Handles
    5. Spline Technique
    6. Spline Reference
    7. Interlude: If I Had to Start Over
11. 3 Graph Editor
    1. Graph Editor Windup
    2. Visual Tools
    3. Working with Keys
    4. Value Operators
    5. Buffer Curves
    6. Speed Cheats
12. 4 Techniques
    1. Auto Key
    2. Timeline Techniques
    3. Cartoony Motion
    4. Trax Editor
    5. Copying Curves
    6. Editable Motion Trails
    7. IK and FK
    8. IK/FK Switching
    9. Character Sets
    10. Grease Pencil Tool
    11. Grease Pencil and Trails
    12. Interlude: All In The Hips
13. 5 Constraints
    1. Parenting
    2. Parent Constraints
    3. Constraining a Prop
    4. Constraint Weights
    5. Animating with Constraints
    6. Interlude: A Well Rounded Approach
14. 6 Rigging Cheats
    1. Rig Testing
    2. Sprucing It Up
    3. Rigging Props
    4. Interlude: Listen Closely
15. 7 Standing Out
    1. Adding BlendShapes
    2. Adding Clusters
    3. Wrap Deformer
    4. Adding Hair Et Cloth
    5. Interlude: Shoot Right
16. 8 Workflow
    1. Planning/Reference
    2. Converting Cycles
    3. Stepped Keys
    4. Stepped Preview
    5. Moving Holds When Splining
    6. Moving Holds w/ Retime Tool
    7. Refining Arcs in Polish
    8. Final Texture
    9. Interview: Michael Cawood
17. 9 Cycles
    1. Cycle Basics
    2. Stride Length
    3. Walk Cycle
    4. Flying Cycle
    5. Quad Cycle
18. 10 Referencing
    1. Referencing Basics
    2. Offline Edits
    3. Saving Reference Edits
    4. Interlude: Planning Cartoony Shots
19. 11 Facial Animation
    1. Planning and Prep
    2. Core Poses
    3. Lip Sync 1 — Jaw Motion
    4. Lip Sync 2 — Mouth Corners
    5. Lip Sync 3 — Mouth Shapes
    6. Lip Sync 4 — Tongue
    7. Blinks
    8. Blink and Brows
    9. Eye Darts
    10. Final Touches
    11. Interlude: Is This A Business Worth Getting Into?
20. 12 Animation Layers
    1. How Animation Layers Work
    2. Animation Layer Basics
    3. Cheating a Cycle
    4. Layers for Texture
    5. Interlude: The Final 5%
21. Animator Interviews
22. Index