From the course: Vehicle Rigging in Maya
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Creating a car camera rig - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Vehicle Rigging in Maya
Creating a car camera rig
Once I've got all the materials on the car and the rig is ready to go and I've taken care of any extraneous parts or fixes in there. I'm ready to get a car camera rig constructed. What a car camera rig is, is a series of cameras that are positioned around the car to catch different shots of the car along the animation. Typically, a camera rig for a real car, looks nothing like the car. It doesn't look like we simply, take one of these cars and film it with a camera. Rather it looks more like a truck is eating a car, with several cameras watching. What we may see of the car in the shot >> Is all that may be there. We may remove wheels, hoods, trunks, doors, roofs, and almost everything of the car, in order to get the car we need. Shooting digitally then with a car allows us to use the whole car, and position cameras around it to capture the action as we need. To make my camera rig that, I'll temporarily hide my curves, lights, and cameras Choosing, display, hide, cameras and show…
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