Setting up the Scene

With Muybridge's images for reference and a downloaded rig, we can begin. Firstly open up Maya and create a new project file and put the horse rig into the scene folder. Now open the scene and bring out the Preferences window inthe bottom right corner.

Under Settings set the Time to "PAL (25fps)". And under Animation, select "Flat" for both in and out tangents.  This will give a nice ease-in and ease-out. In the Timeslider section set the Playback to "Play every frame" and "Real-time (25fps)" and click save.

Now turn on Autokey by clicking the key icon next to preferences inthe bottom right hand corner. It should now be red. This tool will make our lives easier, as Maya will now automatically keyframe any changes.