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Animation playback using Playblast

Animation playback using Playblast - Maya Tutorial

From the course: Maya 2022 Essential Training

Animation playback using Playblast

- [Instructor] When you animate, you'll create a lot of tests and you may want to save these tests for later viewing. And we can do that using what's called play blast. Now play blast essentially records what's in your viewport and plays it back as a movie. And this is great for viewing at a later date but it's also good for scenes that are animating slowly. So that way you can see them in real time. Now here I have a scene where the truck is driving across and so let's do a simple play blast. We can do that in windows play blast. Let's take a look at the options. At the top of the window is the time range. Are we going to do the time slider? In other words in this case from one to 120 or are we going to do start to end? And so when we do that, we can actually specify a range. Are we going to show what view we're rendering? In other words, perspective in this case. Are we going to show ornaments? In other words,…

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