Autodesk Maya and different looks of animation?

Curtis Josef: autodesk maya can create a very professional animation. In reality, many professional animation is created using autodesk maya.the different looks of animation is come from the lack of the animation skill. There is two great school that using maya,1. Supinfocom France (www.supinfocom.fr/)2. Vancouver Film School Canada (www.vfs.com/)you can browse on youtube and search for the animation created by their student, its surely professional for a student level.animationmentor is the online school for animation and they also provide a good quality of animationFor the more professional animation such as pixar movie. They create it from many tool (they even create their own specific tool to help the development). But if you ask whether they use maya or not the answers is Yes,they do.Hope this clear enoughreza...Show more

Marquetta Gimm: Create Animations Like Pixar - http://3dAnimationCartoons.com/?zLyq

Donny Bankson: I would agree some of it is due to l! ack of skill. however when you speak of quality do you mean low resolution, or bad flow of character movements? A poor resolution can be many things: lack of knowledge/ skilllack of the high end rendering software like renderman, komodo etc. maya does not come stock with the same render software as pixar and these other big companies use, but you can acquire them.their computer doesn't have the capability to render out a lengthy scene in high resolution. there is 24 frames per second in animation a 30 second clip for 720 frames at 120 pixels per square inch on a 480x 720 layout can still take and extreme amount of time and memory if you have things like ray tracing, photons, light linking, bump maps displacement maps ramp shaders etc etc. to get a super duper realistic looking scene like you see on the big budget films takes both time and a lot of training. after you know your way around all that it just takes time and playing around with the settings to see what works bes! t. maya is not the sole provider of all texture and lighting d! etails too, programs like mudbox and z brush for making displacement maps, photoshop for texture painting and roadkill for skinning your models and making uv maps are also used. using everything together along with an understanding for good animation is what makes the entire scene look AWESOME . it is possible though to have a very good sense of animation and no sense of texture and lighting, an vise versa.the last possibility is that crappy animation looks wonderfull on their own home system but after compression and resizing now looks choppy and unprofessional. in which case they might not know much about file sizes and formatting for streaming play! here are two more colleges that specialize in 3d animation you can find students work there as wellhttp://www.expression.eduhttp://www.fullsail.edu...Show more