From the course: Cinema 4D: Camera Animation
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Automatically targeting your camera at your subject - CINEMA 4D Tutorial
From the course: Cinema 4D: Camera Animation
Automatically targeting your camera at your subject
- You may have noticed that every time you tweak the position animation of your camera, you have to go back and also adjust your rotation keyframes. This gets even worse when you have a fast moving or erratic subject. We can avoid some of that headache by automatically driving our cameras rotation with a target tag. For example, compare this scene with a moving camera to this one right here, where we have the same moving camera where it's been adjusted to always focus on our figure. Now, these easiest way to create a camera that always targets your subject is to create what's called a target camera. So press and hold on your camera. Choose Target Camera. It will create a new target object, and it will also create a targeting null. And if we look through Camera.1, for example, and then move that null, notice that it's automatically targeting that null. You can move that null in any of your views. You can move your camera in those views, and everything's always pointing where it should…
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