Offering a cleaner approach to creating overlapping animation in a tail, Brian Horgan walks through a couple of methods for how this might be accomplished, one one technique involving much more keyframes than the other.
This video explores two contrasting workflows for animating a tail with appealing overlapping motion
What is interesting here is to see Brian’s animation tools for Maya in action as he is working, he has a few really great time-savers to say the least. For one, the bhGhost tool will create an image overlay in the Maya viewport that are true 3D outlines of your animation which is amazingly helpful when creating animations. If you want to find out more about Brian’s bhGhost tool, check the page here.
Check out Brian’s post for creating overlapping animation and his work over at his site Gaphite9 here: How to Overlap a Tail – Animation Tutorial
