From the course: Introduction to 3D
Unlock the full course today
Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Add cameras in Maya
- [Instructor] I've gone ahead and added in the other two characters in the scene, and I've also added in the textures and materials for those characters. At this point, we're now ready to compose and render our scene. We're going to start off with cameras. Now in Maya, we can add lights and cameras just like we do in real life. So if I zoom out on this scene here, you'll see that I have not only the characters but I also have a nice, neutral background against which we will render them. Now in order to render, we need lights and cameras. So we're going to start off with a camera. We can find this in two places. First, in our rendering shelf, we have a camera button. But we also have a camera button in our create menu. So if I do create, cameras, you'll see we have camera. Camera and aim, that gives the camera a target. As well as camera, aim, and up and that allows you to tilt the camera. We're just going to start off…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Contents
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Maya setup1m 15s
-
Maya interface and overview4m 7s
-
Viewports and navigation in Maya5m 13s
-
Select objects in Maya2m
-
Move, rotate, and scale in Maya5m 2s
-
Creating hierarchies in Maya3m 52s
-
Add color in Maya4m 5s
-
Add texture in Maya4m 19s
-
Add cameras in Maya3m 25s
-
Set up lights in Maya5m 18s
-
Rendering in Maya3m 3s
-
-
-
-