Zoom down a tube

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Pretty easy to do in Cinema. Create your tube using a sweepNURBS object (extruding a circle spline along a path spline). Then create a camera and give it an “align-to-spline” tag, referencing the path. Then animate the tag’s offset parameter.

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[Richard Dewick]

That’s easy for you to say Adam 🙂 You’re talking to someone who can successfully produce a 4D logo and make it spin and rotate! Do you know of an example I can see so I know we’re talking about the same thing?

[Adam Trachtenberg]

[Richard Dewick] “That’s easy for you to say Adam 🙂 You’re talking to someone who can successfully produce a 4D logo and make it spin and rotate! Do you know of an example I can see so I know we’re talking about the same thing?”

I gotcha. 😉

Hopefully this will make it clearer:

https://www.3danvil.com/tutorials/tunnel_fly/tunnel_fly.html

[Adam Trachtenberg]

btw, in case the bit with the null was confusing, I used it so the camera would look ahead as it followed the path rather than turning religiously. If I was less lazy I’d have made the path spline longer than the tunnel so the null could maintain the same offset throughout the animation.

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[Richard Dewick]

Thanks for the tutorial Adam that’s great. Could you recommend a professional who could take this one stage further?

[Adam Trachtenberg]

[Richard Dewick] “Thanks for the tutorial Adam that’s great. Could you recommend a professional who could take this one stage further?”

Further? You mean as in expanding the tutorial or as in doing actually doing a project?

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[Richard Dewick]

Actually doing the project Adam, I need a professional job so my skills aren’t up to scratch!

[Adam Trachtenberg]

[Richard Dewick] “Actually doing the project Adam, I need a professional job so my skills aren’t up to scratch!”

Gotcha. In that case I would recommend … myself. 🙂 If you like you can contact me off-list at adamt ( at ) 3danvil ( dot ) com. If not me, and depending on the job, I can probably recommend someone else.

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