Animating with Maya: Pendulum

Last week we started animating using Maya, and I really enjoyed it. As expected it was quite frustrating to get used to, as I couldn't find the object attributes to animate, but once I got the hang of it I found this first animation quite easy to do. The settings are similar to After Effects in the sense that you can set a small number of keyframes, and the programme will fill out the rest for you.

Even though it's just a simple pendulum, I'm really pleased with my animation and that I have been successful at making it move and loop well. I'm really looking forward to see what else I can do with my acquired knowledge, and I can't wait to learn more in this field. I'd love to be able to get really good at using this programme, so I'm going to continue to practice and learn.