Learn here in this tutorial about viewport 2.0 using Maya 2012. The viewport provides automotion and shading capability of the object. The viewport helps us to move the scene with one cilck from one place to another. You can say that the viewport is just because of camera manipulation tools. You can drag, dolly and tumble the scene with camera setting and control. The scane is dragged to adjust the scene geometry from all sides. The dolly option offers you to roate the scene and third one allows to zoom in or out. The functions are controlled by mouse button and one should learn it by heart at first before going through Maya projects. In this Maya tutorial, complete scene is shown and you are taught about different function and features of Maya modeling.
You can even see the close setting of the model by just using zoom in fuction. If you convert the character model or other models into wire frame mode, then it provides you more details about the scene geometry.
The following scene is actually full scene with perfect modeling and animation and when you play the animation, it describes the lighting and shading in detail. The plug-ins used in this project bring out while the animation is played. If you watch this video of Maya 2012 about viewport setting 2.0 attentively, you will surely find out more interesting information about this scene acording to your point of view. So watch this video and view the skill used in this scene.