[ART] Animating in AutoDesk Maya 2012

[Obliviator27]

his axe's handle twists away.


the keyframes I already set vanish.

1) This is due to improper weightpainting. You want to go into Skin>Paint Weights tool. This tells the model which vertices on the mesh are affected by each bone.

2) The time slider will only show the keyframes for the selected bone. If you keyframe his arm, then select his leg, the keyframe will "disappear". That's because it's showing the keyframes for the leg. When you select his arm again, they keyframe will "appear".