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"Kickbike Fail" Character Animation in Maya

A blue mannequin tries to do a trick with his kickbike, but fails. This is one of my first attempt at animating in Maya using the graph editor. The character is a freebie model by "Anim Matt Tovar" used to learn animating a rigged model. The kickbike was quickly modeled by me though. My reference was a fail video of a guy falling off his kickbike, but I ended up changing a lot of the poses to my own instead of following the reference. I really had a great time animation, something I'll probably do a lot more moving forward, and I practiced using the animation layers function which also helped me very much with this task.

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A blue mannequin tries to do a trick with his kickbike, but fails.