Maya 2010 Animaton Features

• Maya delivers a broad range of specialized tools for keyframe and procedural animation.
• Objects can be easily animated along a curve or surface with automatic bank, roll, and yaw; editing of motion path or other animation parameters during playback is also supported.
• A comprehensive assortment of generalized constraints, including parent, point, aim, orient (with animatable offsets), as well as scale, geometry, normal, tangent, and pole vector.
• Nondestructive, highly controllable animation layering feature set works with any attribute; animation layers can be blended, merged, grouped, and reordered, and can override or add to preceding layers.
• Complex relationships between animated parameters can be keyframed with the powerful and intuitive set-driven key tool; multiple attributes can be controlled with a single slider.
• Graph and Dope Sheet Editors give you powerful, precise function curves to control how animated attributes change over time; they include rapid and intuitive global editing of keyframe timing and lattice and falloff tools that aid the manipulation of dense keyframe data, such as data from motion-capture devices.
• Maya Embedded Language (MEL) procedures and expressions can be used to create complex animation as an alternative to traditional keyframing.

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• Nondestructive mixing and editing of poses and animation clips (including constraints and expressions) with total control over all aspects of motion blending.
• Libraries of performances can be stored and edited.
• Muting and soloing capabilities help provide control over each animation sequence in isolation or in the context of other animations.
• Multiple sound tracks can be matched up visually with animation and played back to facilitate character lip-synching, as well as other audio-matching requirements.

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• Seven built-in IK solvers reduce the time it takes to create high-quality character animation.
• Spline IK solver allows for the easy animation of skeletal chains, like a character’s spine or tail, and includes easy-to-use twist and roll controls.
• Single chain and lightweight 2-bone solvers are targeted for real-time interactivity.
• Spring IK solver allows for precise control over multijointed appendages such as insect legs.
• A full-body IK system delivers fast and easy rigging and posing of characters and supports natural articulation of biped and quadruped models, facilitating interoperability with Autodesk® MotionBuilder® software and Autodesk® HumanIK® middleware.
• Support for smooth blending between IK and FK animation.

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• Deformation tools can be used statically for modeling and sculpting or be animated to add life to creatures and other objects.
• Includes Lattices, Sculpt Objects, Skin Clusters, Point on Curve Constraints, Blend Shapes, Wires, Wrinkle Tool, Bind/Detach Skin, Flow, Jiggle, and Wrap deformers. These deformers can be edited with Artisan for more precise control.
• Soft Modification tool allows for more controllable falloff around vertices or points.

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• Motion-capture data can be easily incorporated into and manipulated inside Maya.
• Motion retargeting enables motion capture, or other animation data, applied to one character to be reapplied to an entirely different character, even one with a different skeletal hierarchy.
• With motion redirection the original direction of existing motion capture, or other animation data, can be changed at any point in time.

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