4 Tips for Great Camera Animation (for Maya or any other 3D software)

In this video tutorial I will cover some useful tips anyone should know when animating a camera in a 3D software.
1 - camera reaction
2 - tracking characters and motion
3 - crane shots / boom shots
4 - hand held camera
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[anthonymcgrath]

great tips.. the lag one is something ppl don't do enough of.. in extreme action shots being not afraid to let the object almost exit frame or in some cases (eg lone object in sky moving at speed) completely exit frame before the camera picks it up again.. as if the cameraman had to open his other eye and scan the area around before relocating the camera to the subject!

for the last one with a handheld camera I walked through a street in the middle of the road and filmed a minute of that. I then tracked that motion in boujou and brought it to Maya. I then extracted out the motion and removed the forward z motion.
I then bind this camera data with about animatable camera that has controls to bring in a percentage of the tracked camera data. the result is I can animate a camera doing anything I want roughly and then bring in a percentage of authentic camera motion mixed in.. works really well overall and it's more authentic than a simple noise function mixed in.

[KOEXStudio]

I normally move my camera manually but the crane effect is good since it comes with a arc movement that can enhance the overall scene.

[beboi]

I'm a 3D student and your videos are really usefull!
Can't wait for your next videos :)

[muhammadebrahim]

Very oxbvious yet very unexpected
Very informative yet very concise
Thank you much 😄

[nathaliawayne]

i'd love to see more complex camera movement. like an over the shoulder shot and then camera rotates out to a front shot, and the camera stays in frame.

[vuknikk]

Could you please share the file with the camera rig. Thanks for sharing the tips!

[torababdullah]

cool video.. and a tutorial on how to do these would help us more.

[MiloKosongQueen]

You make great tutorials / videos!! I enjoy watching them :D 

[Veerayyaanimator]

Great Camera Animation tips, Thanks for sharing, I want know more camera techniques, like suddenly zoom in & zoom out and long shot tracking character can share some idea

[puppadread]

Hey, dude. How did you create the camera crane in Maya? I don't find any video tutorials about this cool feature. May you make a tutorial about a camera cran like in this vid? It may help me to get better shots in Maya. Howerver, cool video :) Like it :)

[BlackJaguarTV]

So it is essentially animating the camera as it was your head looking around

[artist]

hey, thanks for the video! Can you give any tips on how to mimic camera focusing in maya? i hope its an idea for your next video :)

[rizwanmation]

I use Lightwave I make the the camera track an object

[sathvik]

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[random]

is it like ...the distance between camera and the frame (we want to show to viewers) is always one i think not...

[pankajrawatsingh]

How to create camera direction up down up down in turntable Maya 2018

[azizfelder]

How do you. Switch cameras but still playing the video. As example say if I had two cameras how can I key one camera then key other one and make the perspective switch from camera 1 to camera 2

[zaincassini]

Nice. But now since we have drones, we don't really need a crane. 🤔

[isaiahross]

Can you put a video about motion tracking with 3d character with real people in maya

[DuckiMucky]

XD im from israel too he so amazing right?!