Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Referencing in Maya (ANI304)

Today's lesson was about creating reference and using Dropbox for group networking.

I didn't know about referencing before, but it is very useful tool as i'm working on the scene that made from others and i don't really need the props unless their position. Before I used reference, I imported the whole scene and it took a while to load big file, and I had to lock / template the layers to avoid move or delete the props by accident. However, referencing allow me to add the dynamics without affecting the reference scene. I usually worked on the dynamics with the original scene and exported the dynamics only to comp it later or to put them in the scene later. But the reference scene isn't saved with the dynamics I made, the only thing I need to do is just save the dynamics without exporting them. It made my life much easier.


Before referencing, every props could be affected if i didn't lock/template the layers

Using referencing. I don't need to worry about affecting the original scene anymore.

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