Category Archives: Tech Tip Tuesday

I missed New Zealand’s Tuesday, but it’s still Tuesday elsewhere. This is just a way to unload references without going through the reference editor. Sometimes it can be annoying to try to find the right reference in a big long … Continue reading →

Copying and pasting curves isn’t necessarily difficult in Maya, but there’s a lot of options to fiddle with, and a lot of times all you want to do is simply copy all animation directly from one node to another. For … Continue reading →

If you’re nostalgic for an old-school 2D lunchbox workflow, you might want to cut and insert frames. The first command will push all your animation forward one frame from the current frame, affectively “inserting” a frame to make your animation … Continue reading →

When you’re animating it’s easy to end up with way more keys than you actually need, and that can get messy (and wasteful!). One way to deal with this is to only set keys on channels that already have animation … Continue reading →

This deletes the key on the current frame. It’s basically the opposite of setKeyframe, and something I always thought was missing from the default layout. If you set keys constantly, it stands to reason that you’d want to delete them … Continue reading →