In
the Scene View, click View
> Image Plane > Import Image. An image plane is
automatically created and connected to the camera and you are prompted
to choose the image.
In
the Environment section of the camera’s Attribute Editor (View
> Camera Attribute Editor), click the Create button
to the right of the Image Plane attribute.
Maya creates an image plane and connects it
to the camera.
TipMultiple image planes can be created per
camera for interesting backgrounds, ordered by depth. right on the
arrow key of the image plane attribute in the camera to display
a list of the image planes per camera.
Make
sure that the Type attribute for the image
plane is set to Image File (the default setting).
Click
the folder button for the Image Name attribute.
The file browser appears.
Select
the image file you want to use as a background, and click Open. Maya
connects the image file to the image plane.