Saturday, January 28, 2006

Camera Control, Part 2: Graph Editor & Dolly Rigs

Chris and Trish Meyer | 01/28- 02:42 PM

Using parenting, expressions, and the new After Effects 7.0 Graph Editor to better control a 3D camera. 

In the previous column, we discussed a handful of tricks and techniques which can be used in different situations to make it easier to animate the 3D camera in After Effects, including one node cameras, two node cameras, auto-orientation, and building a special orbiting camera rig using parenting and null objects. In this column we’ll show how to build a “dolly” rig for the camera in older versions of After Effects as well as the new version 7.0, plus give a quick introduction to the new Graph Editor also introduced in After Effects 7.0.

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