This video tutorial will demonstrate how keyframe a squashing object’s scale attributes, how to block keys and how to create cartoon’s expression and emotions. After this tutorial you will be able to keyframe in details at intermediate level.
Animation in Maya is a great fun but especially making cartoons’ expressions is a very interesting job. Commonly beginners keyframe transform attributes but rarely scale attribute of objects. Though Keyframing on scale attributes of some object creates interesting effects.
Second thing which is important in this video tutorial is blocking keys. Normally we set keys on specific frames but we don’t know blocking keys and we find unnatural effects in our animations. With blocking keys we stay objects on their natural positions especially for talking characters blocking keys are an essential part of expressional animations.