Procedural Animation in Maya

This flying drone was animated entirely with MEL expressions. No dynamics. Not a single keyframe. 100% procedural animation.

The animation is based off a single noise function used according to the following template: noise(timespeed + offset + 111.111seed)*magnitude

I'll publish a tutorial to illustrate this technique. It creates random dynamic movement which doesn't require caching. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ykjT7lKQ4