Animating Clock Hands in Maya Using Expressions and Keyframes

Everyone needs to start somewhere, and if you are interested in getting started with simple expressions in Autodesk Maya, then this is a great place to start. Chandan Kumar demonstrates how to create a clock animation where the hands of the clock are controlled by simple expressions expressions in Maya.

Even if you are a little familiar with Maya Expressions, this tutorial will show you how to create a clock so that you are able to set animation keys for the hour hand of the clock and the minute hand will rotate accordingly.

today I will show you how to animate clock hands using expressions in Maya. This is a follow up to my previous tutorial “Creating An Animated Clock In 3ds Max Using Expressions and Custom Attributes”. This time I am using the same techniques in Maya and I hope the Maya users will find it helpful

This is a super simple tutorial providing a good overview of expressions on attributes in Maya, and also a bit about the expression editor in Maya. Chandan has set this up to be the counterpart to a similar tutorial he recently did for 3ds Max, called Creating An Animated Clock In 3ds Max Using Expressions & Custom Attributes. Check out the tutorial for Animating a Clock in Maya Using Expressions here.