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Changing eye direction

Changing eye direction - Maya Tutorial

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Changing eye direction

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- [Instructor] Hi, I'm George Maestri. Today, we're going to continue with eyes and we're going to show you how to shift eye direction. Now this may seem simple, but there are a few layers to this that will help you to achieve some believability. So let's start with our character. So I have this control here, this rectangular control called Control Eyes. And if I move that around the scene, the character's eyes follow it. It's a very standard, kind of a simple rig. And so I'm just going to move these eyes, say over here, to the character's right. And let's set a key. And so I'm going to move his eyes from his right to his left over the course of about a half second. So I'm going to go to, say, frame 12 and then set a key, go over to 24. Now we're animating at 24 frames per second. So this is a half second. And then shift his gaze and make sure we have a key set. So now we've got that and let's do one more. I'm…

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