My friend Ferdinand Engländer, one of my former colleagues from Filmakademie, approached me a few months ago and asked me if I would like to record a bunch of little tutorials about CG Animation for his website www.animator-island.com.
Since I am very self-critical, and know that I am nowhere near giving other people advices about animation and still have a tone to learn, I thought I could talk about little more technical things, which might confuse you when you first start working with Maya. Things you should be aware of and which might seem little at the beginning but may safe you a lot of time afterwards or when changes need to be adjusted.
Here are the first two of our little tutorial series: