maya - Steampunk Train Animation

The video link is the animation which I've been working on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-grDMrjIBFY

In the video, it shows the design on the main drive motion and shows what will be moving.

The project is a steampunk theme which I wanted to keep with accurate throughout the environment but to have an element of fantasy in there too.

throughout the progress, I was having a lot of trouble sorting out the animation, creating the animations wasn't the hard part but trying to import it into ue4 wasn't work create!

This was a big set back with the project and I have to spend longer than I wanted to make sure it was working how I want to because this was the main point of the project.

rough design of the animation

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