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Navigating a scene with camera views

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Navigating a scene with camera views

- [Instructor] Throughout this course I will be navigating scenes by moving the camera around. If you're new to working in 3D operating the camera can be confusing at first. Let's start by taking a close look at this scene to understand what we see. The table model sits on a ground plane, which is represented by these grid lines. The grid lines do not become part of the final rendered scene. And if I move the camera the grid lines will converge in space. We can even navigate the camera below the ground plane, now we're looking under the table. When we're under the ground plane the grid lines become red. With the camera below the models the scene looks completely different, but understand that only the camera has moved, the objects have not. To return to where we started we need to reset the camera. There's Camera Undo, which is separate from Object Undo, in the Camera menu here. I'll have to do this a couple times to get it to reset back to where I started. Now that we understand the…

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