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Controlling camera rotations - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: Product and Architectural Visualization Techniques
Controlling camera rotations
- [Instructor] Animating camera rotations in 3D is notoriously difficult for any non-trivial shot. It's unfortunately very common for new users of a 3D animation package to experience cameras rotating in the wrong direction, flipping upside-down, and generally being impossible to control. Before getting into how to address this widespread issue, I want to mention that it only applies to cameras that don't have a target, also known as an aim or look-at point. Targeted cameras are good for still images and certain kinds of animation, such as a camera orbit. But in most animated camera shots in untargeted, or free camera, is by far more easy to control. A free camera acts more like a camera in the real world, making it easier to perform standard rotations of pan, tilt, and roll. However, the priority of those operations is usually not optimized for camera animation. Rotation information in a 3D animation package generally takes the form of three channels or function curves that can be…
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