From the course: Essential Technical Aspects of Animation

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Pans, trucks, and zooms

Pans, trucks, and zooms

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Pans, trucks, and zooms

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- [Instructor] So let's say you want to do a pan scene where you're tracking the camera across the screen or you want to follow an action, you want the background to move behind the characters. You want to have a pan background. So it's got to be longer, much wider, usually far wider than you think. And in the old traditional days the poor background artists and layout artists who had to draw these would be, you know, like working with on very long tables with sheets of paper that could be like five, six, seven feet long. So in this case, thankfully, we're working on Photoshop and we don't need to do that and break a sweat. So in this case, here's the crop of a, I think it's an HDTV 16 to nine aspect ratio and there's different ways that we can think of a pan scene. So we can actually just pan the background keep the characters in place so these guys are running and running and we can just pan the background, Presto pan…

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