First Animation in 3DS Max

Well, back for the second semester and now starting animation!

For our first tutorial, we learned about the basics of animation and key framing. My first video below shows how I animated a torus knot.

First, I drew out the knot onto the viewport then switched on the auto key framing tool. Then, I moved the timeline slider along the bottom along by 20 frames and then moved and rotated the torus knot. I repeated this step about 10 times until finally ending up back where the torus knot had started. When playing this back, the torus knot moves and rotates its way around the viewport.



Secondly, I created a sphere in the viewport and then, using a similar approach to the previous animation, I used the scale and move tools to modify the sphere at different times on the timeline. After I had done this, I opened up the graph editor and played around with some of the lines, changing how certain movements occurred and their speed. When I had finished, I exported the animation as an avi file and the result is shown below!