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Creating replacement animation

Creating replacement animation - Maya Tutorial

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Creating replacement animation

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- Hi, I'm George Maestri. Today we'll look at replacement animation in Maya. Now this is an effect you've probably seen in shows like Robot Chicken, or maybe the Lego movie, and it's where the mouse swap out, rather than fully animate. And it's a great stop motion effect, and it's good for a lot of different projects. So, let's take a look at how this works. I'm going to zoom in. I've got my robot here. I'm going to go ahead and hide this helmet. And if we open up the outliner, you'll see how this is all built here. So, I've got this mouth control, which basically will animate left and right along X, and that will swap out the mouse and the mouse themselves are grouped and then grouped again. So each piece of geometry is under its own individual group. So, mouth one is under group one and so on. So, I'm going to go ahead and select all of these and shift + H to unhide them. So, now I have this whole mess of mouse and…

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