Handheld camera simulation

[Kevin Camp]

if your text is 3d and you are using a 3d camera for the move, try adding wiggle to both the camera point of interest and the camera’s position.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Daniel Waldron]

Good suggestion. I was just going to try that actually. I have the wiggle expression on the position, but I think adding it to the point of interest will really help.

[Tyler Wiethorn]

Think about what real camera shake looks like. Wiggle position, point of interest, and rotation.

[Conrad Olson]

To get really realistic movement you can always shoot something with a handheld camera. Camera track that footage and then apply that camera track data to the camera in your scene.

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conradolson.com

[Daniel Waldron]

All great ideas. Thanks for all your input!

[Vishesh Arora]

Daniel

Check this tutorial on How to control wiggle expression:

https://allbetsareoff.com/tutorials/keep-your-wiggle-under-control/

It will help you to experiment with amplitude and frequency if wiggle without entering the values again and again.

Vishesh Arora
3D and Motion Graphics Artist
Films Rajendra

Blog:
https://digieffects.wordpress.com

2011 3D Demo Reel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8

[Darby Edelen]

Another good thing to modify if you are using a wiggle() expression are the octaves.

The first two properties supplied to wiggle (frequency and amplitude) are required for the expression to work, the rest of them are optional. If you supply a value for the 3rd property in the wiggle you can increase the number of octaves from the default:

wiggle(1, 10, 3);

The above, for example, will wiggle with a frequency of 1 Hz, an amplitude of 10 but with 3 octaves. This is similar to the “Complexity” of the Fractal Noise effect. It will preserve the overall effect of the wiggle but create additional “sub-wiggles” that add detail.

Here’s an image of a wiggle() with 1 octave:

And here’s a wiggle() with 3 octaves:

Note that both curves follow the same basic path, but the one with 3 octaves has more “sub-wiggles.” If you want to reduce or increase the effect that these additional octaves have you can add a 4th property to wiggle():

wiggle(1, 10, 3, 0.2);

The default value is 0.5. A value of 0.2 would reduce the effect that the additional octaves have on the total wiggle.

Darby Edelen

[Ido Shor]

what a gem!
thanks Darby. (7 years late…)

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