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By displaying a small part of the scene that lies outside the rendered area,
you can plan future camera movement more easily, especially if the scene
has objects that move in and out of view.
Animating camera moves
In Maya, the camera can be animated. You can set keyframes for the camera
moves the same as for other objects in your scene. In the next steps, you set
keys to do a simple animation of the cameras movement.
To animate the camera
1 Go to the start of the playback range.
2 Dolly, tumble, and track myCamera to create a view similar to this:
3 With myCamera selected, set a key for the cameras current view at the
first frame. To set a key, select the Animation menu set, and then select
Animate > Set Key. (For details on setting keys and animation technique,
see
Lesson 1: Keyframes and the Graph Editor on page 186.)
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