From the course: Maya: Motion Graphics Workflow with MASH
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How to use MASH, type, and network blending - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya: Motion Graphics Workflow with MASH
How to use MASH, type, and network blending
- [Voiceover] In this video we're gonna take a look at another way to set up a MASH base type animation and this time we'll also introduce the idea of MASH network blending, which basically allows you to create two different MASH networks and crossfade between them so you can have different kinds of behavior and instead of having to create it all and keyframe it all with differences within one MASH network, you can create two things that are totally separate and just do a simple crossfade between them. It's really nice. So let's create some type, Create, Type, let's go to our type menu here. I'm gonna type the word universe this time. Let's do a center alignment. So I'm gonna pick this font I like on this machine. There we go, whatever you'd like. Okay and so we want to just do a few things under the Geometry tab to clean up the geometry. I'm gonna change the curve resolution under the mesh settings to eight and I'm gonna filter colinear points, which is gonna get rid of points near…
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