From the course: Creating a Mograph Title Sequence: 2 Animating in After Effects

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Animating the camera

Animating the camera

From the course: Creating a Mograph Title Sequence: 2 Animating in After Effects

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Animating the camera

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- [Instructor] The next step is to add a 3D Camera and animate it to make our scene more realistic as well as interesting. So what I'll do is go to the Layer Menu and under new, I'm going to choose to add a new Camera. I'll choose the 35 millimeter preset making sure that I'm walking with a Two-Node Camera and I'll click okay. Now the best way to animate the camera inside after effects is actually to create some sort of a synthetic gimbal and to do it, I'll right click on the Camera here in the timeline and from the camera options, I'll choose to create an orbit null. And this is going to create an invisible null here in the timeline and it's also going to parent the camera to this null. And to see it, we can right click over here, and from the columns list, choose parent and link. This way, we can say that the Camera is a child of this null. So I'll drill down the null options and under each Transform, I'll…

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