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Cheating camera orbits

Cheating camera orbits

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Cheating camera orbits

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- [Narrator] This is a very simple cheat, but it's a fun one, and don't overdo it, but it's handy to know how to do it, it's a camera orbit. And, it's taking a flat character and then doing a little spin around, and it looks fancier than it really is. Let's take a look at some of the nuts and bolts. So as the name suggests, we are orbiting the camera around the figure and that creates this nice arcing movement, and it's often used for dramatic shots, reaction things, and stuff like that. So, how do we create this illusion with flat characters because if you're working in CGI, it's simple, you just move the camera. If you're working in a puppet system though, there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. So the right way being, the biggest mistake you can make is the direction of motion of the background. So in this case, to get the illusion of moving the camera from left to right, we start on the right side of the…

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