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Animating an aerial shot with Transform Keyframes

Animating an aerial shot with Transform Keyframes - Maya Tutorial

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Animating an aerial shot with Transform Keyframes

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- [Instructor] An aerial camera movement may be the most complicated to animate because potentially, the camera has six degrees of freedom. It can move in three axes and rotate in three axes. And that means you may need to spend a lot of time in the graph editor adjusting key frames and function curves. We won't have time to go through the entire process in this short demonstration, but I'll give you a broad outline of the process. So we want to start with our camera in one of these panels. And just to make things a little bit easier to see, I want to hide all the components of this character rig. However, at some point I will want to animate the character. At this time, I don't want to hide the rig entirely. I just want to hide the curves that make up this rig, in this camera panel. I'll go to the show menu and disable visibility of nurbs curves. The reason I want to keep the character rig visible in the other viewports,…

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