Leo turned to the timeline. He set his frame rate and moved to frame 1. He positioned Pip’s hand in a wave. He pressed to set a keyframe.
When he hit play, Pip didn't just move; he lived. The wooden puppet waved back at his creator from across the digital void. In that moment, the complex menus and hundreds of tools vanished. There was only Leo, his puppet, and the infinite possibilities of a blank 3D scene. autodesk-maya-2014
As Pip took shape, Leo entered the world of nodes and attributes . Every move he made was tracked in the . He spent hours in the Outliner , organizing the hierarchy so that when Pip’s arm moved, his hand followed. Leo turned to the timeline
He slid the timeline to frame 24 and moved the hand across the screen. He pressed to set a keyframe