The Digital Matte Painting Handbook

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 ...