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Using the dope sheet

Using the dope sheet - Maya Tutorial

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Using the dope sheet

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- [Instructor] Another way to adjust animation is to use the dope sheet. Now this is very similar to how the timeline works, but it gives you a little bit more discrete control. So let's go into Windows, Animation Editors, Dope Sheet. And so I'm going to scrub this animation here. In fact, I'm going to need to move this over a little bit here. I'm just going to go ahead and move this up here. So here I've got my spaceship coming in and dropping down. Now when I select the actual spaceship, you'll see that I get my keys here in the timeline, but I also have them in the dope sheets. So notice how it's kind of like a cross between the graph editor and the timeline. So I've got basically each individual attribute has its own little line where I have my ticks for key frames. And so if I want to, I can adjust this animation. So let's say I can shift select all of these rotate keys, and middle click and drag all of them. Or left click and drag and marquee, select those keys, and then adjust…

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