Befores and Afters has published an article on how industrial robots can be controlled directly from within Maya using a plugin called Mimic. This can be useful for controlling complex camera rigs that need to precisely repeat movements for VFX that use miniatures and physical models. Read the article in full on Befores and Afters.
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