We will use motion paths to create an animation in Maya.
We animated a sphere to move along a path:
We also used the graph editor to change the speed of certain points of the animation
Playblasted animation:
We animated a balloon moving through an obstacle course, we used the camera to pan around the course and follow the balloon
Playblasted animation:
Moving forward, I would use this for making things like cars move and have things in the sky move