Induction to Animation in 3DS Max

This is the time configuration where all of the important time stuff is held. such as the speed, frame rate and end and start time. 

This is the Set key Filter menu. This is where if you need to key from something like scale you can change it here. What you can key.
Keying things in 3dsMax is mostly the in Maya, however this menu is one of the differences.
Red key=postion
Green key=rotation
Blue=scale
Black=custom

Layers, like in photoshop, make it simple and easy to change what an scene looks like.

The curve editor allows you to move, add, delete keys. In and very easy way. In this exercise I moved the tangent of a key to change the speed of the car.


http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cD6qnEjknM

This is the panel that is used to bake in the frames. Change the range and the sample numbers to what is needed than hit collapse and you are good to go.
http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cD6qenjkev

Walk Cycle

http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cD6hnJjUvP

It is skipping frames for some reason. I had an upper classman to try and fix it and even she couldn't get it to work right. However, other then that I'm super proud of my first true animation!

This was when I was just starting out. There were many issues and I didn't understand why it looked very wrong. Now I understand that timing is VERY important when doing animation.

I used the graph editor to make the speed of the foot consistent.