Hey guys, welcome back to this section of the course. So in this tutorial I'm going to talk about setting up the reference images. Now, I know I said using reference videos, and it's the middle that I use, or let's just remove that I use to convert videos into images felt a bit lengthy. But for me, I find it's the best process because one of the limitations of Maya is Maya cannot read video files. So if I was to let me go to the front view, it was to go to the front view aspect, texture mode, and also go to View image plane input image. And obviously, make sure that you set your project so that you cannot have to go digging some good set my project set.
Let's go back and try that again. So view image plane import image. So you Yeah, so the thing about my is Maya does not play video files, it only plays image sequences. So in this case, which 1am I going to start with, I'm going to start with the squash and stretch. So I'm going to select this image sequence, and I'm going to say open. Okay?
Now you can rescale the image plane to fit your character. Now, if you hit play, first of all, if you hit play on your timeline, you notice that nothing is happening on the image plane. Okay? So it's not that there is a glitch, always know that there is a problem is just that you need to go to your Attribute Editor while having the image selected and make sure that you check him in sequence. Now this was for most textures. If you wondered how you can create a television, just need to apply a texture and then check, check.
They're often called image secrets and now See that if I was to hit play on my timeline in does play. Now it felt a bit laggy because I am recording at the same time. But I think yeah, I think this animation is exactly 48 frames. That's just that is a coincidence. So I'm going to try and match up my image plane, like the size of the character to my model, so just trying to make sure that they are almost the same size. And it doesn't have to be the same size for me.
It's just more of a preference. Okay, I think night has become bigger is a rooster. Yeah, that's better. I was gonna say now it's playing video. So even if Maya does not play with you, you need to make sure That if you decided to take a video of yourself doing something, you're going to have to go through the process of going to a software like Adobe Media Encoder or I think any other converter and convert your image your video into an image sequence. So if you check the JPG option, if you render it out as a JPEG, it's been turned out is a sequence of images.
Now I have already done that work for you so that you cannot have a lot of work to do. So as you can see, am I going to live this image on the front view? or ugly? Yeah, I'm gonna leave it I think it's not really distracting me that much. But I always have the option to turn it off if I don't see it. So yeah, there is that.
So in this video, has been a short one. I showed you how to Input an image sequence in Maya