LEGO build animation

[Anonymous]

I'm working with Maya recently and I'm wondering how to make a build animation out of a LEGO object. I mean a animation that the bricks are falling from the top at the correct spot as a wave. Every brick is an object without texture. Who can help me?

[J450NP13]

Can you better describe what you want or show a video of something similar?

I kind of think I know what you want but not sure.

I am thinking you will want to use some scripts to achieve this.

[Anonymous]

I want an build-animation based on a Lego car or something. The bricks need to come from the sidewall or from the top, exactly at the right spot, then forming the Lego car or something. Do you understand?

I cant find a video. I had one but I lost it!

[emmad_ilyas_75]

I think you mean something like this, I would want to achieve this in MAYA as well. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cinema4D/s/2uuN0rORyc

[Kahylan]

Hi!

This is pretty easy to achieve.

The hardest part is modelling all the needed bricks and placing them so they form your build.
Once you have done that, create a keyframe on frame 24 with the position in place you want it in the end.
After you go to frame 1 and move all the bricks vertically up. Move the bottom bricks up the least amount and the higher up a bick is, the more you move it up as well. Then you create a keyframe on all the bricks.

Now you should have an animation where the whole build drops down and builds at the same time.

To get it to fall down from left to right like this, you select all the bricks except the most left ones. Select and move over all keyframes on the selected objects by 1 or 2 frames. Deselect the left most bricks, move over all the still selected keyframes again, repeat until all bricks are deselected.

I hope it helps!