In this chapter you'll learn to organize your camera views. There are different ways to organize your cameras and will help you streamline your production methods.

In this section you'll learn to use the transform tools. These allow you to rotate, scale, extrude and move your object.

Hierarchies are systems of linked children and parents and can be important when animating objects. The Hypergraph window allows hierarchies to be viewed in an organized schematic manner.

When working with polygon meshes the pivot point is usually at the center of an object. Sometimes this might not be ideal for what you are trying to accomplish. In this section you'll learn to move an object's pivot point to a random location or snap it to a vertex.

When modeling there are several options for selecting and manipulating your objects. In the following chapter you'll learn the many selection options and their uses.

Using groups in Maya will help you organize your project better. In this chapter you'll learn how to create groups and add different objects to them.

Similar to layers in Photoshop, layers in Maya will help you organize your project. Layers allow you to lock the selectability of objects and turn their visibility on and off.

Shelves are menu bars in Maya that can be customized with useful commands and operations. Adding tools that you use frequently to your own custom shelf will save you time while you are modeling.