For example, you can apply a squash deformer to the model of a ball and then parent constrain the ball to the hands of a character. You can also create deformers for objects to create complex deformation effects. You can limit and control the transformations of objects by constraining them to characters or other models in your scene. Non-character objects are also very important to bringing your scene to life.

You can also create deformers for your character and animate them to produce effects for example, the jiggling belly (jiggle deformer), furrowing brow (wire deformer), and flexing biceps (lattice deformer) of a sumo wrestler model.

Rigging all your characters and by applying the appropriate constraints and deformers to all the objects you want to animate.Ĭharacter setup, involves creating skeletons and IK handles for your characters, binding skins to the skeletons, and setting up deformers and constraints. Before you animate the characters and objects in your scene, set up the scene by

Maya character animation