The Graph Editor in Maya is the one stop solution for fine tuning our ball animation. Let's take a good look at the Graph Editor. The Graph Editor in Maya is shown in the image above. On the Left pane, you can see the currently selected object in the scene (Ball) and it's various attributes that can be animated. The center of the Graph Editor window in Maya (the gray colored region) is the main work area. Here you can see curves in various colors. The colors of the curves correspond to the attributes on the left pane. If you select a specific attribute from the left pane, only that specific attribute's curve gets displayed in the Maya Graph Editor. A vertical red line (near the mouse pointer in the image) shows the current frame which is active in the scene and you can see the frame numbers along the bottom of the Graph Editor in Maya. You have a horizontal set of curve modifier tools along the top region. We will see some of them in detail later.

You can use the same Alt key - Mouse combinations to Zoom and Pan inside the work area in the Graph Editor in Maya. (Alt + Right-Mouse-Button for Zooming and Alt + Center-Mouse-Button/Scroll Wheel for Panning). Try them right away.