From the course: Cinematography: Maya
Using the Zoom tool - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Cinematography: Maya
Using the Zoom tool
Something that's often overlooked in Maya is the ability to zoom the perspective camera. This will allow you to, for example, take in a wider view of the scene. Let's say I wanted to see the entire room all at once here. Well, if I dolly back, then what will happen is I'll eventually go through a wall, because the room is pretty small. We can work around this by using the zoom tool instead. And that's once again found either in the View menu or on the shelf. You can see it's under View > Camera Tools > Zoom Tool. Or you can also just click on the button on the shelf. And with the zoom tool active now, when you click and drag, the camera is not actually moving, but the optics of the camera are changing. We can make it a wide-angle lens, or we can make it a tight telephoto shot. So now if I just zoom back a little bit, I get a much wider angle of the room. And I can now tumble around and not to worry about the camera going through walls. So once again, if I were zoomed in tight, and then dollied back, I'd go through a wall. I want to actually see something from a distance, so I can give the illusion of being farther away by zooming out. And now I can take in more of the space.
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Working with the perspective viewport camera3m 10s
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Undoing camera movements3m 19s
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Using the Zoom tool1m 28s
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Using the Fly Tool2m 38s
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Displaying and moving orthographic cameras4m 17s
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Setting clipping plane attributes2m 56s
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Hiding the ViewCube3m 23s
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Using bookmarks for alternative orthographic views5m 3s
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Creating new preset orthographic views1m 17s
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