Setting Up for Camera Projection
If you’re new to Maya, it’s a good idea to watch the Essential Skills Movies that appear when you first start Maya. If they don’t come up, choose Help Learning Movies. There are seven movies, each about a minute long, and they will provide you with the Maya basics to do this lesson.
Set the Project Folder
After you open Maya, set up a new project by choosing File Project New to create a new project folder (Figure 8-12). Name the new project Castle_Project. You’ll use this project folder for the entire camera projection, so locate it somewhere convenient on your hard drive.
Figure 8-12: Open Maya, and set up a new project file.
Click Use Defaults, and then click Accept (Figure 8-13). Doing so creates ...
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