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Graph Editor

As your katana for cutting through a jungle of spline curves, the Graph Editor offers much in power, simplicity, and efficiency.

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MAYA’S GRAPH EDITOR is easily its most powerful and most used tool for animating. it’s likely that you will spend much of your time working with it, so it’s a no-brainer that we learn all the ins and outs of this fantastic editor. What’s more, maya 2012 has brought a nice overhaul to the graph editor interface and some new tools to complement it.

We spent the last chapter understanding splines, and now we’ll learn how to use the graph editor to interact with, edit, and manipulate them.

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