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Time slider bookmarks - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya 2026 Essentials Training
Time slider bookmarks
- [Instructor] If you want to keep track of your animation on the timeline, you can use what are called animation bookmarks. And it's a great way to create shortcuts in your timeline to allow you to move quickly between parts of your scene. So here I have my spaceship. I'm just going to go ahead and select the spaceship itself. And you'll see we have a couple of sections here where this comes in, it enters the scene, it hovers, and then it lands. So, if I want, I can create bookmarks for these. So for example, here, from frame 96 to 120 is where it lands. So all I have to do is Shift, select that area, so from 96 to 120, and then right-click. And we'll have an option here called Time Slider Bookmarks. So I'm going to select Create. I can give it a color and a name. So let's call this Land. Hit Create. So now, I've got that bookmark. Let's do another one here. So, it hovers from, say, 70 to 96. So let's go ahead, Shift-select 70 to 96, right-click, Time Slider Bookmarks, give it a…
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Understanding the animation interface7m 3s
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Animating objects using set key4m 35s
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Adjust keys on the timeline4m 51s
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Modifying keys in the graph editor4m 5s
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Using the dope sheet1m 48s
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Animating objects along spline paths5m 20s
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Creating animation cycles5m 1s
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Time slider bookmarks2m 52s
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