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Create animation cycles

Create animation cycles - Maya Tutorial

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Create animation cycles

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- [Instructor] If we have animation that's repetitive, a lot of times we'll want to cycle that to save key frames and time. So let's go ahead and create some animation that is cycled. Now the first thing I want to cycle is the donut on the roof. Let's just go ahead and make it spin constantly. We can start that by simply making it spin. So I'm going to select the donut, hit S at frame one. Let's go ahead and do this over the course of 48 frames. I'm going to scroll forward to frame 49 and then just rotate that. Now, if I want to, I can type in 360 into rotate Y, and that will give me an exact value. And then I can hit S for set key again. So now I have a very nice rotation of my donut. But it stops right here, and this is where we need cycling. So we can do that in the graph editor. So let's go into Windows, Animation Editors, Graph Editor. And we're working with rotate Y. Now one of the things you'll notice is that this is…

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