From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)

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Animating the vanishing point

Animating the vanishing point

Animating with Vanishing Point is much like any of the other animations you did before, except we actually have more dimensions so we can move the camera around with a bigger arcing movement. Let's just select the Camera layer here, and adjust its position. What I can do is start to swing the camera around to the side. Now if you go too far, you start to notice that the angles don't look quite right, but it's still pretty cool. Let's tweak that position and point of interest there, and move the camera up just a little bit to start. I like that, and we can adjust the resolution here, to 1080p, and I see our initial starting point, let's tweak the zoom as well. Now we'll swing out over the course of 15 seconds, and start to move the camera around. You may recall using two views earlier, well this makes it pretty easy. Now what we can do is look at the environment and see the camera. So if I want to swing the position…

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