HOW TO Build a Camera Gimbal Rig for Animating COMPLICATED Camera Movements in Maya.

HOW TO Build a Camera Gimbal Rig for Animating COMPLICATED Camera Movements in Maya.
Having trouble figuring out how to animate a camera in Maya? Trying to do some cool fly-around shots or be creative with your camera motions, only to run into a gimbal lock situation and a crazy unpredictable graph editor? Well, here is my solution to this type of problem. I animate cameras all the time, and this is the exact setup I use to get predictable motion out of a CG camera.
Step 1 is to set up your camera rig in a way that you don't ever have to actually set keys on the camera itself.
The rest of the steps for animating cameras is to set up a camera rig where you have a series of nested groups separating out all of the transform attributes onto different objects so that they do not compete with each other in the graph editor.
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