Outputting Your Work: Playblasting
What’s the use of animating all this work and not being able to show it? There are several ways of outputting your work in Maya, most of which involve rendering to images. One faster way of outputting your animation in a simple shaded view is called playblasting. Playblasting creates a sequence of images that play back on your computer at the proper frame rate. Only if your PC is slow, or if you’re playblasting a large sequence of frames, will your playback degrade. In this case, playblasting 240 frames shouldn’t be a problem.
A playblast, as it’s called in Maya, outputs the view panel’s view into an image sequence or AVI movie. You can also save the image sequence or AVI to disk if you like. Playblasting is ...
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