Learning Autodesk Maya 2010: Foundation

Reactive animation

Reactive animation is a term used to describe animation in which one object's animation is based on the animation of another object.

An example of this technique would be moving gears when the rotation of one gear is linked to the rotation of other gears. You can set keys on the first gear and all the others will animate automatically. Later, when you want to edit or tweak the keys, only one object needs to be worked on and the others update reactively.

Animated gears

You can set up reactive animation using a number of tools including those outlined below:

Set Driven Key

This tool lets you interactively set up an attribute on ...