From the course: After Effects CC 2021: Character Animation Essential Training

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Add cameras

Add cameras

- [Instructor] To take advantage of a scene with multiplane layers, we'll need to create an animated camera to capture the parallax that gives our character environment a sense of depth. Here in this movie, we'll see how we can add and manipulate cameras inside of After Effects. Here in this example, we've got a composition that we previously laid out for multiplane. And if we come over here and change this from active camera to top view, you can see that we have all of our layers inside of our composition here distributed out in Z space. And this is what's going to give us our sense of parallax whenever we create a brand new camera. Change this back to active camera. And now to create a camera, all we have to do is make sure that our composition is selected and come over here to layer, go to new camera. Under these options, we have the ability to create either a one-node camera or a two-node camera. Either of these options…

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