Level: Beginner
Recorded in: Maya 2012
Files used: http://areadownloads.autodesk.com/wdm/maya/HTM_GNL_navigate_manipulate.zip
Description: This video shows you how to select and manipulate objects in your scene.

In this tutorial we talk about some basic animation principles and setup, and then proceed to take a brief look at working with 2 really great plugins from aescripts.com. After a bit of recording issues the day of the user group meetup, here is a more in depth tutorial on how to create the effects seen here: vimeo.com/36736051

Disclamer: the music audio is a bit loud, be prepared, and my video capture software was dropping out on me a bit. Sorry for that.

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