Camera movement

[Simka Cvetkovic]

Thanks a lot!

[Mike Clasby]

AE Camera

Camera Parenting – Read this entire thread, then download the aep, it’s was for an Aussie promo, camera parenting explained!

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=872881

This post by Chris Smith on how he uses Nulls with camera movements:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=878237

Here are some other tuts for camera work in AE:

Animating The Camera: A Five Minute Tutorial by Rick Gerard
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/gerard_rick/AEWeekly1/index.html

Expressing the Camera: A Five Minute Tutorial by Rick Gerard
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/gerard_rick/AEWeekly2/index.html

Taking a Wild 3D Ride
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/sjostrom_bjorn/3d_ride/index.html

Building a 3D World in After Effects by Bill O’Neil
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/oneil_bill/3d_world.php

Using Depth of Field to Create Flythroughs by Bill O’Neil
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/oneil_bill/DOF/index.html

Shooting for 3D post by Bill O’Neil
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/oneil_bill/shooting_3d/index.html

For expressions and the camera
Building the World’s Greatest Cameraman

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/ebberts_dan/expression_cont/index.html

https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/auto-focus.html

https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/auto-orient-y-only.html

Andrew Kramer does some basic camera moves, here:

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/3dcompositing/index.html

https://www.videocopilot.net/videotutorials/3droom/index.htm

SHADOWS – These are cool for shadows

Dressing Up a Scene With Shadows
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/oneil_bill/shadows/index.html

More Lighting and Shadows
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/oneil_bill/shadows2/index.html

VOLUMETRIC LIGHT – Here is a nice Volumetric Light Script, that uses AE