IK - v - FK - which is best? One question that often confuses student animators is "IK vs FK" - Inverse Kinematics (IK) vs For...

Why Doesn't It Work? "It doesn't work"   is a problem frequently encountered by our students at BNU. Remember that e...

Hard Drive - full of moving parts There are few things more depressing than being told by a student that their hard drive has died, and ...

Utah Teapot Lighting your scene using Autodesk Maya can be a tricky process. You get your lights to look just the way you want them to, ...

New look Graph Editor Not everyone is a fan of the Maya 2017 interface. In particular, the new-look Graph Editor isn't necessarily a...

Keyframe MP Overview from Chris Zurbrigg on Vimeo . KeyFrame MP - Video Playback for Animators - is an excellent video playback tool t...

I often get asked questions about the online MA in 3D Animation from prospective students, seeking to know more about what is actually inv...

Visit a website like Turbosquid and you will find plenty of cool stuff, much of it free, to help you with your animation. You might want...

Animation Methods by David Rodriguez is a very, very good book on learning animation in Maya.  It's a book that focuses primarily on...

Render by Gilles Tran - Wikimedia Commons  Rendering, as my old tutor at Escape Studios used to say, "is where everything starts ...

Time to enter  the RealFlow "Deliciously Viscous" Student Film Challenge ! At stake is $3,000 in prize money for the winning s...

Visual Effects Lighting specialist  Simon Maddocks  will bring a Masterclass in Lighting for Animators to Bucks on Monday 20th April. We...

Handbrake. Free to download. What is Handbrake? Handbrake is a video transcoder ,  a tool for converting video from nearly any format to...

How do we make beautiful renders in Maya? "Utah teapot" - Wikimedia Commons How do you make a Batch Render of your frames in M...

Horse in Motion by Edward Muybridge How can animators use live action reference to create believable animation?  Back in the old 2D d...

Maya, industry standard software Autodesk Maya is a powerful piece of software, free for students to download, and now the industry...

Last year Autodesk released Maya 2015, free for students and universities, and another leap forward in what has become the leading softwa...

Autodesk Maya is a big and complex piece of software, full of traps and pitfalls for the unwary. The "Unknown Nodes" ...

Dr Leonhard Euler by Jakob Emanuel Handmann.  Image: Wikipedia Look under the Curves menu in the Graph Editor in Maya and you will see a...

  One question we get asked a lot at Bucks is this: " What should I use for animation - a PC or a Mac?" The good news is - yo...