Animate a Telephone Ringing in Maya

Animate a telephone ringing in Maya

In this very short (just ten minutes long) beginner animation tutorial we show how to do some very simple animation - animate a Telephone Ringing.  This tutorial is aimed at animation beginners in Autodesk Maya.

Simple exercises are a great way to gain confidence in animation, starting with the basics to gradually build up your confidence and skills.

Tutorial

Telephone Ringing Tutorial at YouTube.

Animate a Telephone Ringing - Work Method

• Start by going to Turbosquid.com, a great resource for free sets and props for animation. Search by "lower pries" and find a phone. Download anything Maya compatible (mb ma obj or fix files will all work).
• Create a Project in Maya, and set to it.
• Download the phone into your scenes folder.
• Make sure that you can animate the handle of the phone. If you can't, go to mesh/separate to separate the handle from the rest of the phone.
• Set your timeline to 51 frames
• At frame 1, set a keyframe on the phone handle. Set another keyframe at frame 13.
• At frame 15, lift the phone up in the air, and rotate it. 
• At frame 17, lift the phone up a bit further in the air, and rotate it the other way
• At frame 19, lift the phone up a bit further in the air, and rotate it the other way
• At frame 21, lift the phone up a bit further in the air, and rotate it the other way
• At frame 23, lift the phone up a bit further in the air, and rotate it the other way. 
• At frame 25, bring the phone back to its starting position.
• Then, copy the frames and paste them to make the phone ring again.

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