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Anonymous Sun 23 Nov 2008 21:39:00 No.295134 View View Reply Original Report

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Anyone familiar with Maya?

I recently started playing around with it, and I had a friend show me one of his animations he did. When he played it using the play button on the timeline (as well as when he just dragged the timeline back/forwards) it played it through WITH different camera angles. How do you do this? I'd ask him, but he's going through some family problems and it'd be a bit awkward to just strike up a convesation about animating.

tl;dr - In Maya, how do you make an animation with different camera angles, and have it play (with the camera angles) even from the timeline?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 23 Nov 2008 22:01:00 No.295139 Report

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You could try making the camera jump from one spot to the next with no motion keyframes in between, but I'm sure there's an easier way than that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 23 Nov 2008 22:50:00 No.295153 Report

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Make separate cameras and place them where you want them. then render out those specific frames that you're wanting for one camera, then do another render on those specific frames on another camera.
^Takes less time than going through, setting a motion path, and then going into animation editors and making the camera jump to a point on the path.

any other questions i can help with?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 23 Nov 2008 22:54:00 No.295155 Report

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>>295139
no, if you were to do that, it would move from one point to another in a straight line. You would still have to go into animation editors.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 02:55:00 No.295214 Report

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My Maya education cost $130k *50 after merit scholarships* how about fuck off I'm not telling you how to use it.

MAYA EXPERT

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MAYA EXPERT Mon 24 Nov 2008 06:13:00 No.295272 Report

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Have camera in place for shot "A".
Key frame the camera on the first frame of shot "A".
when shot "A" is complete, keyframe the camera again on the very last frame of shot "A".

For just a regular cut,
ON THE FIRST FRAME WHERE SHOT "B" BEGINS (RIGHT AFTER WHERE SHOT "A" ENDS...Shot "B" should literally start on the frame after shot "A") Key frame the camera in it's new position.

Because the two frames are back to back, the first frame (where shot "A" ends) will have the camera in one position, but the second frame (where shot "B" begins) will have a new angle, because the frames are RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER, leaving no room/frames for a tween. It will just "Jump" or "cut" to it's new position.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 06:54:00 No.295282 Report

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>I'd ask him, but he's going through some family problems and it'd be a bit awkward to just strike up a convesation about animating.

Why didnt you fucking ask him when he was showing you then!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Nov 2008 08:36:00 No.295330 Report

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add a new camera.

position the camera

select the camera

"look through selected"

maya has a cool function that allows you to search through it's menus for commands because of how dense the menus are. if you can't find what I'm talking about then google the commands or use command search.

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