finished animation
 

when ive finished a piece of animation how do i put all the scenes together and view it?

If you mean you've finished rendering the frames and want to view it, you can load them into Fcheck, a psuedo-compiler that comes with Maya. If you mean you have a a couple different scenes all rendered into frames and you want to put them to gether, you can do so with a program like Premier or After Effects. A freebie program called VideoMach might also work, although it doesn't have near the features of the more expesive programs.

Have you rendered the actual animation?

no i havent, how do i render the whole thing and not just a frame?

Mike has a great tutorial on that right here

http://simplymaya.com/movie_pages/tu...html?tut_id=49

And lucky you, it's free.