Playing with Ubuntu

I recently bought an Acer Aspire One netbook since I wanted a small portable computer to take with me when I travel or just don’t want to be tied to my destkop at home. It came pre-installed with Windows XP which is fine by me, but one of the reasons I bought it was...

Expressing my frustration for Maya’s animation layers

When I first heard that Maya 2009 would finally come with animation layer support, I thought there finally is a really good feature that many animators crave in their animation software. I recently been working on some simple tools working with animation but adding additional options for using layers. So far I am sort...

Plugging PyMel

I was trying to think of a scripting related topic that would be useful to talk about and thought I should show my support toward PyMel. Maya’s python integration in my opinion falls short of what it should be. They blended syntax of object oriented programming with the procedural style of MEL. Which, for...

All Aboard!

Right now at ImageMovers Digital, everyone is working hard to get the the finish line of our first feature film, A Christmas Carol that is coming out in November. Disney has a great marketing team and is doing all sorts of interesting ways to spread the word about this film. Disney actually bought a...

How to create a Maya set driven key in MotionBuilder

Hello, and welcome to this tutorial of how to create a Maya set driven key inside MotionBuilder using a relation constraint. This will go through the steps and explain a little about how its done. This tutorial is aimed at intermediate MotionBuilder users who are familiar with some basic constraining and what a set...