slowing camera down along spline path

[Cory Petkovsek]

Keyframe your start and stop position for the animation. Then keyframe your slowdown and speed up points. Then go into the timeline and smooth out the curves til the animation feels right.

Key points:
– The curve should always be moving up (or down), never up then down or your camera will move back and forth.
– Make sure the keyframe points are always smooth interpolation or your camera will stop and jerk.
– Make the slowdown time have a small slope.
– Tighten the curves around the slowdown time.

Cory

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[Jack Sewell]

Hi Cory,

thank you again so much for you response. Where can I find the slow down and speed points. It’s these i was having trouble locating.

many thanks…………

[Adam Trachtenberg]

My suggestion would be to keyframe the start and end of the camera animation and then use a time track to control the pace.

[Cory Petkovsek]

See implementation of my suggestion. They are just keyframes you add. I’m sure Adam’s suggestion is more experienced.

https://f1.creativecow.net/file/1126/1126_fastslowcam.c4d.zip

Cory

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[Jack Sewell]

Thanks Cory! That was a really nice example. Helped me a lot…..
Really appreciate so much for you input…….

[Alan Lacey]

Adam, I’m new to time tracks, could you give a blow by blow example if you have the time please?

Cheers Alan

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[Marcos Perez]

Right click on camera and select f-curves. They’re like bezier curves to control object animation speed. You can also select the animation viewport and select f-curves as well. Hope this helped.

[Ayoife Oni]

Really helped with this project I’m currently working on… so happy… SO SO HAPPY!!! 😀

Thanks so so much.