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Camera movement control…
Hey Cows,
I need some help… I’m trying to do an animation where at the start, the camera begins moving forward while following a winding path (a red line, for now). While it winds around in this forward-moving manner (like driving), images, text, and other content pass by.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to follow this line with the camera without painstakingly trying to key the movements using a Null layer to control the camera. Is there an easier way to do this?
Any help will be greatly appreciated, as always.
– The Foonshoe
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Oh, I created the line in Illustrator so I could zoom right in on it without losing crispness (with the continually rasterize setting AE).
I drew up the curvy line, then in AE, converted that layer to 3D and set the X Orientation to 273 -
You can use illustrator paths as “paths” for animation – just highlight the Z position of the camera and paste the path from illustrator – it will add keyframes to follow the path. I use this technique all the time to create circular path animations without having to use nulls…
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Yep… here’s a walk through and a few other tips:
Expressing the Camera: Animating Along a Path
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/gerard_rick/AEWeekly1.php
And a second that uses expressions to look ahead:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/gerard_rick/AEWeekly2.php
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Incredibly helpful! Thanks!
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Thanks a ton! That tutorial gave me exactly the info I needed to help clear things up. Thanks again!
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