From the course: After Effects CC 2019: Character Animation Essential Training

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Add cameras

Add cameras

- [Instructor] To take advantage of a scene we'll need to create an animated camera our character environment a sense of depth. 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 zSpace 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 will create a camera for us. However, the two-node camera has an additional property called Point of Interest and this is essentially a target object for the camera…

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