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Need help/suggestions for camera move
Hi,
I’m having difficulties making a move that seems like it should be simple look effective. Basically, I have a background that’s stationary in the back. Then I have text in front of it. As you move away from the background, I have picture elements placed in z-space. I just want to move a camera through all of this until it ends up with the text full screen. The move takes place, in time with the music, over 28 frames. Currently I’m only animating the z-space on the camera, and I have the camera ease in but stop with a linear keyframe (it matches the music best this way).
What I hope to do is have the camera see every element, but still move quickly and look “in-your-face,” for lack of a better term. Currently, it just doesn’t feel right. the camera moves too slow and the elements don’t work. I also am having troubles placing enough elements in the picture at the beginning, because I don’t really want them visible until the camera is supposed to focus on them, or until they are in the background for the current picture. However, you’ll often see the new pictures right from the start. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Sean Kimber
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7 Replies
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How about seperating the text more from the bg in z-space so the camera has to move more, then moving the other images off on the x-axis so that the camera only catches them as they come into frame.
To give the impression of speed you could also try to add a little wiggle to the x and y of the camera creating a shaky type of movement. Add mucho motion blur and you should be set.
Hope this helps
Mark
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28 frames, that doesn’t seem long enough to do what you have described. That’s less than a second. You could try using DOF to help blur out the images that you are not focused on that might help in hiding them.
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Thank you both for your suggestions. I’ll try both. Unfortunately, as I said, I’m editing to the music bed, and that’s really where it sounds like it calls for the move. The text is already off of the background, because I also have a shadow layer associated with the text. But I’ll give these suggestions a try. Thanks again!
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Also try using a narrower camera lens to catch less in the peripheral.
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Hi,
I’ve tried this method, and I must be doing something wrong. I can’t seem to get any of my layers to show up on the screen. They follow the camera, as you said, but they follow it off the camera’s view. What am I doing wrong?
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Yes. I created the camera and a null and parented the camera to the null. Then I placed all of my elements to the right side and back of the camera and parented all of them to the camera. I then pushed the camera back on the z-axis over the 28 frames and rotated the null object on the y-axis over 8 frames. But since the layers were all parented to the camera, they just followed the camera and stayed to the side/back of it.
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All right. That worked. Thanks a lot! I appreciate the help.
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