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Create animation cycles

Create animation cycles - Maya Tutorial

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Create animation cycles

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- [Instructor] Many times, we'll need to do repetitive animations, such as cycles. Maya has a number of tools to help you with that. Most of this happens in the Graph Editor, so let's go ahead and take a look at the scene that we have. I have a simple box, here. If I play this back, you'll see that it basically just jumps up and flips over. If you notice, we have a green side on the box and then when it flips over, the yellow side is up. Let's take a look at how to manipulate this. I'm going to go ahead and zoom out just a little bit so we can see this. Let's go in to Windows>Animation Editors>Graph Editor. This is where we will control things such as Cycles. Let's go ahead and select this. You'll see that we have a number of animation curves, here. You'll see that we have a key in the middle and then a key at the end. So, we have basically, a grand total of three keys here. Let's just take a look at one curve. I'm going to take a look at Translate in X. When we want to Cycle…

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