Maya tutorials:camera work with a motion path

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If you use a Motion Path with a camera, you can set the camera target by the path
and you can make smooth rotation of the camara view.


Basic of the motion path.

maya tutorial camara animation motion path
Select a object and a path(NURBS Curve)
Animate > Motion Paths > Attach to Motion Path
The keyframes are set by the start frame and the end frame value of Time Slider.

maya tutorial camara animation motion path
Go to a frame you want to add a keyframe.
Select the motion path, reverse U Value of motionPath1 in the Channel Box
with maya tutorial Key Selected
A keyframe added.

maya tutorial camara animation motion path
Click the number of the keyframe,
select maya tutorial camara animation motion pathShow Manipurator Tool, yellow maya tutorial appears.
You can move this maya tutorial with maya tutorial
You can edit the keyframes with the Graph Editor by selecting this curve.



the camera and the motion path

maya tutorial camara animation motion path
The plan of camera work is this:
View A,C,G,I of the box(1 - 30 frame),
fix view at E and the camera rotates around the box (31 - 60 frame).


maya tutorial camara animation motion path
Make a camera Create > Cameras > Camera,Aim,and Up

In the Outliner camera1_aim and camera1_up are made.

maya tutorial camara animation motion path
Make a NURBS curve. The camera view moves according to the curve.

Select the curve and camera1_aim
Animate > Motion Paths > Attach to Motion Path
In the option window set Start/End value.
(In this case 1 30)


maya tutorial camara animation motion path
If you attach the camera_aim to a path, you will see the camera view is rolling.
To avoid this, adjust camera_up and set keyframes.

Make keyframes of camera position as usual.
(In the Perspective Window panels > perspective > camera1
view > select camara, animate > set key)

In frame 31 - 60, the camera1_aim is fixed to the end of curve,
rotate the camera around the box, set keyframes, adjust camera1_up to move the camera smoothly.


The camera work of this method.


Camera work made by a camera (no aim, no up)
(Create > Camreras > Camera)
You see that it is difficult to fix the view when camera rotates around the box.



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Maya tutorials:camera work with a motion path


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3 Comments

thanks for your tutorials.i want to know more about on this .can u continue with more tutorials this may help me and my friends ones again thanks for this

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I will write more tutorials.
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