Animating a camera in Maya

[@nikhildussa403]

9 years later , but still really useful . Thanks a lot for this kind of clear explanation .

[@ananths1122]

2021

[@ananths1122]

10 years later, still, the only video that helped me, after a quick search.

[@AnimationMethods]

Glad it's helpful. Nothing really has chanced in the way camera animation is done in Maya since :D

[@Gentmatable]

Thats what i love with humans !!! they are different . YOU ARE DIFFERENT ... Straight to the point without stupid comments and wasting our time ! Your a great teacher ! Keep up the job and thanks a lot i appreciate a lot this video

[@AnimationMethods]

Well I try my best, but I can't please everyone. But I'll keep them different for ya'!

[@Gentmatable]

It Doesn't Matter ! No one can please everyone especially with 21 century where naked girls jumps in a CS animation tutorial video , he gets like 1 million viewer while a very good straight to the point video like yours will get at most 1000 or more viewer ! Sadly but the truth is always truth so the sun is the sun !

[@Gentmatable]

Lol i was reading my comment it doesnt make any sense , cause i translate from arabic to english when i write down my thoughts ;) . Yalla good luck with your videos ,, im done with animation long time ago but now i saw your comment and liked to reply

[@TheLillianYoung]

I rarely animate in Maya, but am animating a camera in all of the wrong ways. Your video was so incredibly useful. I can't wait to return to work and re-animate my scene. Doing it your way (using the Look Through Selected) instead of my way (animating the camera by dragging it around tediously and getting jerky results) is priceless. Thank you!!!

[@xryanxbeastx33]

I have been watching your videos for a year now and I have to say you are a great teacher. You have been getting me through college quiet well thank you

[@mar25947]

Thank you! We haven't learned this in my animation class yet, so now I get to be ahead of the game.

[@AnimationMethods]

That's what it's all about! :)

[@Zenovarse]

Myriad Maze learnt this, but already using XGen and nhair and dynamics... A lil bit rushed. But eh

[@OSOUAS5]

Just wanna say that you really know how to explain something, you are a really instructor, thank you.

[@uzubakki]

I am glad that i found you , You should be teaching on Universities , 100 % Entertaining , 100 % Educational . THANKS FOREVER !!!

[@hanasuru]

I love this video! Please make more! You are straight and to the point with your instruction!

[@AnimationMethods]

Thank you. I have lots more videos on my website. www.AnimationMethods.com

[@vikrampalsingh8239]

Thanks for all your tutorials. I am a hobbyist and cannot go to animation classes and such tutorials let me enjoy my hobby by learning it at professional levels. Keep it up.

[@AnimationMethods]

Thank you for checking out our videos and I'm glad they're helping you out. I will be making more courses throughout this year.

[@AnimationMethods]

@CrashElements I just learned to do this at work last week. You can use Camera Sequencer in Maya to jump from camera to camera. I'll be making a video tutorial on this soon! Professionally, we never "zoom" the camera. We actually animate and move the camera closer to the character.

[@EryuHD]

Just like to point out that, even though this method works fine for playblasts and such, when rendering with motionblur as a renderpass, frame 83-85 will have a huge amount of smear and will be totally useless when comping, which in turn means you'll be cutting three to four frames in total. However, this works fine if you're method for motionblur is "doing it in post", in for example AE or nuke.

[@AnimationMethods]

@Quemaine1000 Right click on the timeline and you'll get a window. Click the bottom one that say Playblast. You can also check the setting by clicking on the small box next to the word Playblast.

[@seumulhana21]

Thank you for this tutorial.. Thank you also for stressing on the important parts and making everything simple enough to follow..

[@AnimationMethods]

Yes, you can use two or more cameras. But it's a little harder in maya 2009. From Maya 2011 to 2013 you have a tool called Camera Sequencer that make this process much easier. I don't have Maya 2009 anymore.

[@jeganj4496]

Welcome back to bring out your wise to subscribers and those who comeacross on Nice illustration bro from INDIA Jeganmohan

[@levitabusman]

You covered everything I needed to do fast! Thank you

[@gabrielchampagne691]

did it in maya 2016 work perfectly

[@SaChInRaJpUt-pc7wp]

youtube recommended me this video and i am glad to click on it nice tutorial

[@nyuki187]

great video, thank you very much, i hope you achieve the goals you want to. subbed. I like the honesty and slight awkwardness of how you speak, it's "unprofessional" but in my opinion the best, because it shows your warm and kind perfonna and is fun to learn from someone like you. so kudos, keep it up!

[@advaitmishra6816]

you are god to me thanks since i want to become a car designer u cleared my vague path thank u again

[@saikiran153]

Thanks a lot David!! I dedicate my first ever animation assignment to you :D great tutorial!

[@AnimationMethods]

The 180 line goes from the character to the rake and the camera always stays on the left side of the rake and the character. On the last shot, you might think its breaking the rule but the camera is on the same side and at a close up. Maybe you're confused because the character turns around making you believe the camera is on the other side. Look close :)

[@whi2gan]

Really clear video & cute animation!! Haha

[@AnimationMethods]

CakeBakeMakeCreate Glad you liked it.

[@animationexplorer61]

Thanks for your efforts. Things like your work are always appreciated

[@Justcallmetad]

Thanks for the tips, man. It sure did help me a lot.

[@StevenatorPC]

Thank you for this, very simple and concise, helped a ton!

[@HouessLuc]

thanks for this little tutorial,very informative,it will help me for my ownanimation,love your channel

[@Stef-an]

Very useful mate, simple and exact. Thanks a lot

[@AnimationMethods]

Thank you for checking out the vids!

[@AnimationMethods]

Make sure in your animation preferences under animation Tangents are set to spline.

[@tariq0513]

Great tutorial..love your style of teaching..

[@AnimationMethods]

Yes. You have to move the Head with the legs. What my other videos on "How to Animate".

[@sunnybran2005]

Easy to understand. Great tutoril. THANKS!

[@AnimationMethods]

Glad you liked the tutorial! :)

[@MultiJayraj]

Very awesome. Really very easy understandable tutorials. Thanks a lot.

[@animatetube8059]

Thank you for the tutorial. Ur animation looks so good!

[@rociooAchan]

You're a great teacher! Thank you for your videos!

[@AnimationMethods]

Glad you learned from it. :)

[@mariastark1862]

wow 2020 and still incredibly helpful! thank you!

[@Gvantsa]

Wonderful video. Very easy to understand thank you! I really needed this lesson on camera. I will be using a moving camera in a scene for the first time.

[@AnimationMethods]

Glad you enjoyed the video. Would love to see your moving camera work. Post on our Facebook wall if you'd like to share :)

[@AnimationMethods]

@OnlyOneMoomin I'm happy it helped you :)

[@DearRoad]

Thx a lot, man!!!! your video is very helpful!!!!

[@jackychan2795]

thanks man very useful video

[@andrewgunderhill6908]

I'm thinking about how much fun it would be, just to have a virtual camera as part of an incredibly robust Tank Rig, where the camera is parent constrained to the rest of the rig. That way, whoever watches the animation would be like "Yee-haw."

[@AnimationMethods]

You can definitely do that. That would be an awesome view!

[@Dkyj]

thank u man,u are the reason why i wont fail.

[@AnimationMethods]

lol. You're welcome!

[@AnimationMethods]

I'm glad I can help. Find me on Facebook if you ever have any questions.

[@rodneymichaely.4360]

Thats pretty cool

[@jorisvanlaar]

Still relevant, though I think it would be a great addition to explain how to prevent a blurred frame when doing a cut with motion blur on

[@ezidras]

Amazing tutorial! =D Helped me a lot! Thank you!!!

[@AnimationMethods]

+Ezidras Lacerda Glad it helped you out.

[@misterjaroslav6859]

Good for the beginning. Thanks!

[@awesomeuser3630]

thanx so so much ,it was very useful for me because I have to make camera cut in my assignment sence

[@TehTrikTrak]

Thank you :) this helped me with my college course work

[@AnimationMethods]

You're welcome! We have many more lessons on our website...www.AnimationMethods.com

[@AnimationMethods]

Yup. or you can use MatchMover that comes with Maya. But it's the same thing for tracking footage.

[@fayopoly7809]

AnimationMethods Thank you, well explained. :) Could you please make us a tutorial of this animation ?

[@Abhilash_nair]

Thanks for nice tutorials you provide.... Is it possible to add noise to individual channels of camera in maya like other 3d applications do... I found it adds more convincing camera motions...

[@TheKillingTreeTT]

Exactlly what i searched for Mister! Thanks for the easy to follow tutorial. I was wondering if i can use like 5 cameras for the different cuts?

[@AnimationMethods]

+TheKillingTreeTT You can but you would end up rendering them separately then compositing afterwards.

[@TheKillingTreeTT]

Thank you for the replly. Sounds like a lot of work that is not necessary. I stick with one camera :)

[@debjanimukherjee7883]

Thank you so much!Useful & interesting one!

[@meoramiruddin]

really helpful, i learned a lot from your channel. Thank you

[@AnimationMethods]

Glad you learned from it :)

[@Eueun]

this sis still useful thank you so much!

[@Slayermunch]

hi its really nice tut. but ihave a small doubt,.how do you attach a camera to an ogbject and make it follow the object?for instance , if i have a shot of missile and i want the camera to sit on the rocket and it follows as the missile animates?

[@srinivasanjayamohan8177]

Thanks I learned lot from this about cam

[@Red_Rebel]

You’re amazing! Thank u for this ♥️🔥👏🏻

[@AnimationMethods]

Red Rebel thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@magnusbokarlsson]

You know you break the nr. 1 rule of cinematography: the 180 rule. The first two shots stay on the character's left side but the last shot breaks the 180 line.

[@OverTheFence47]

THANK YOU! Perfect tutorial and great, easy to understand commentary! Cheers :)

[@sambuudonidtogootumur3358]

Thank you

[@metropolisss]

Thanks for the great video. I have a question about animation though... I don't know maya very well but I'm into it & I can make some walk cycles where the simple bot is like walking on a treadmill... But the thing is I can't actually make the character move from one place to another. When I attempt to do so, it just deforms in shape and I'm not able to move it... So is there any suggestions of how to actually move to character, just like in this animation here... Thanks again :)

[@LAmotionPics]

Thank you for this tutorial!

[@esthergarcia9327]

Loved it. BOOM!

[@AnimationMethods]

You might need to upgrade your computers RAM. You need at least 4GB of RAM for Maya to work smoothly. If you only have 2GB you might get that problem often.

[@grimdorables4094]

You are very funny...Could you make more tutorials on camera animation (slow motion, speed up, fixing the camera on graph editor, dynamic movement, fps etc.) Love your tutorials haha

[@AnimationMethods]

Thanks for the view. I'll definitely be making more tutorials and will consider your list.

[@OnlyOneMoomin]

thank you very much. helped me make the moves for this ident i am trying to create... :) great video and easy to understand.

[@LAmotionPics]

Thank you for this tutorial! Bless you!

[@padaal123]

Dude this was so helpful thank you so much.

[@sostcgtech]

Great tutorial, thank you!

[@AnimationMethods]

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it

[@AnimationMethods]

I don't know of any good ones, but I'll be making some videos soon about this.

[@bigsmoke3656]

Very useful video I learn how to shoot in maya with camera thanks ☺️☺️☺️🤗🤗🙂🙂

[@AnimationMethods]

That's awesome. I'm glad the video helped you out! Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to check out.

[@DidyDoddie]

How did you make the robot thing move in time with the legs? Did you have to keyframe each individual part to move?

[@confessionsinagony]

Thumbs up for Digital Tutors! :D

[@marneebox]

do u use that digital camera for match moving animation too? you know, for computer graphic elements that u want to be incorporated into live action footage?

[@crisxae8625]

Nice video, it helped a lot thanks

[@reko6262]

very clear tutorial thanks :)

[@hmud9139]

thank u very much i was looking for this very useful ,,greeting from KSA

[@failard]

Tnx a lot man.Really helpful video for general camera knowladge.

[@redwizard6696]

*thanks

[@redwizard6696]

*knowledge

[@amardeepgupta2001]

Thank you !

[@joelbraganza3819]

very helpful, thanks man!!!

[@AnimationMethods]

Could be your graphics card. How much memory does your graphics card have? Also, make sure you don't have an insane amount of objects in you scene.

[@edersouza1881]

THANK YOU!! DAVID..

[@godknowsnehaG]

Thanks for this tutorial. 🌈

[@AnimationMethods]

@SenorCajones Watch the whole thing a few times. He turns around. @1:00

[@mpmt1031]

love your tutorials bro. keep then coming.

[@AnimationMethods]

I'll keep 'em coming for ya!

[@ameliaim7357]

Sir. you teach better than my professor

[@AnimationMethods]

lol. Thank you! I just hope you learn something from the tutorial. I'm sure your teacher is good as well.

[@douglaslima5031]

Nice work man.Thanks

[@Sange4499]

thanks dude this helped heaps!

[@AnimationMethods]

+Sange calipari Anytime man!

[@franklloydcadag3530]

THANK YOU soooooooooo much! :) this is very helpful! :D

[@noirwolfcreations8827]

5 years latter it's still useful as bacon

[@dalyzee]

agreed

[@noirwolfcreations8827]

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[@dalyzee]

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[@pinkzzzpassion]

thank you...it was really helpful :) u can mk things understand so easily

[@javabl3ck]

Damn, and here I was thinking I needed multiple cameras for this.

[@AnimationMethods]

You can definitely do it that way as well. There's a camera sequence you can use to switch between different cameras. I'll make a tutorial on this soon.

[@javabl3ck]

@@AnimationMethods Thank you so much. I look forward to it. I am new to animation and I want to give it all I got.

[@AyahAnimaya]

Amazing in 2018 😅 .. thank you 👍

[@inbaamariyaan8388]

Thanks.... I am understanding...

[@jacquesm1652]

Isn't it better to have different (separate) cameras for different cuts? Where di you learn this technique? At a studio?

[@AnimationMethods]

+Jacques M Easier with one camera. If not you can use the camera sequencer. There are many ways professional studios use cameras. Use what works best for you. This is one technique to get beginners started. And yes, this technique is used in studios.

[@haneulkim9443]

Thank you so much, this video helped me a lot :)