Animated models

Send an animated character from Meshy to Maya with its skeleton and animation, ready to play in your scene.

Send an animated model

You send an animated model the same way as a static one. Before you start, run the bridge in Maya. For the steps, see Bridge to Maya.

To send an animated model, follow these steps:

  1. In the Meshy web app, open the animated model in the viewer.

  2. Select the animation you want to send.

    Animated ogre in the Meshy viewer with Walking selected among five animations, including Running and Angry Stomp

  3. In the viewer toolbar, click DCC Bridge (the plug icon).

  4. Click Send to Maya.

Meshy sends the rigged character with the selected animation at 30 frames per second. The plugin imports the character, its skeleton, and its animation into the open scene.

Maya viewport with the imported ogre, its armature in the Outliner, and the Meshy Bridge window showing Bridge ON

To preview the animation, drag the Time Slider.

Maya viewport with the ogre in mid-stride and an arrow pointing to the Time Slider at frame 18

Next steps

  • To add more animations to a character before you send it, see Animation.