From the course: Introduction to 3D in After Effects
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Animating a two-node camera
From the course: Introduction to 3D in After Effects
Animating a two-node camera
- [Instructor] Whenever I need to create an animation where a camera is trying to frame a specific object, or rotate around a specific object, I like to animate with a two-node camera. So for this project we're going to animate a camera move around this S logo. So to do that, I'll go up under the layer menu and first I'll actually need to select the timeline so it's active, then go back up under layer and go to new camera. Now for this camera, let's change the type to a two-node camera and make sure the lens preset we work with is 50 mm and then click OK. Now I know it doesn't look like much has changed, but press P to open the position for camera one. And scrub on the X parameter and you'll notice with a two-node camera as a scrub on the X parameter I'm kind of orbiting around the scene. To more clearly see this, I'm going to go to my one view pull down and change it to say, two views horizontal. On the left side here if you don't see custom one, click on the left side and change…
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