Summer Blogs - Maya Animation Practise

After getting my head around the basics and making an environment, I wanted to play around with a rig and practise doing some animation using the graph editor.

Here are some animation tests I did, I first of all did a run cycle;

Then I practised something more tricky and did the character throwing a ball;

Overall, I really enjoyed animating using Maya. It might not be as personal as drawing each frame, but I loved its efficiency and realism you can create.