Additional Detail: Moving Cameras, Moving Characters

There are many situations in which your camera will move. You may have drawn these into the storyboards with camera directions. Whether or not you did, you can put them into place now.

Once again, it’s a matter of following your storyboards as you play through the story reel and setting keys on your camera instead of your characters. Figures 7.30 through 7.35 are a series of storyboards in which a camera showing the Beast’s point of view looks back and forth between the two dogs sitting on the back of the couch. In the final animation, this was given a more realistic motion, but at this stage of the production, it was done with a simple series of rotations and keyframes. Depending on your taste, ...

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