As mentioned in the email, there will be no class meeting today.  We should have a regular class meeting on Wednesday. For today, please watch these two videos that offer some good information about animating a lift movement in Maya, also using constraints to help the character’s hands move relative to a prop (rather than a prop relative to a hand).

• Lifting a Heavy Weight Part 1
• Lifting a Heavy Weight Part 2

Make sure that you have completed all homework and web exercises up to this point before class on Wednesday and bring any questions about animation work in Maya so far.  Also, production crew — bring list of assets, any updates to concept art, and any updates to storyboards and animatics.  We’ll plan to setup things in Shotgun on Wednesday for the productions. For bonus credit, after watching the videos above, complete another lift movement using parent constraints for prop movement using a rig other than the Goon or Groggy.  (It could be another rig included from the book downloads, or a free Maya rig from creativecrash.com).