Camera work

lbrgoof · Post by **lbrgoof** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 5:40 am

I am new to Anime Pro but have plenty of experience with other apps. Camera work in Anime gives me unexpected results. My drawing is complete and in Anime. All I need to do is creat the Camera Work. First
my camera frame is not completely inside the viewing window and the help book, guides, etc are not helpful. I also want to set my first frame and move in a 2D style from point to point but sometimes the camera moves backward unexplectedly. I believe I understand the tools but I need extra help that isn't in the Offical Guide,Users manual or help manual. Does anyone have any other suggestions for learning the trick with the camera?

lbrgoof

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:18 pm

sometimes the camera moves backward unexplectedly

Yes, this may happen under some circumstances.

Are you familiar with a rostrum camera? Then this trick wil help you: Put all of your layers into one group layer (or bone layer), and this layer into another group layer. Name one of them y and the otehr x, to avoid confusion. Now, instead of using the camera moves, move only these two layers, one only vertocal, the other only horizontal. You will always get straight movements now.

lbrgoof · Post by **lbrgoof** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:29 am

No, I have never heard of the rostrum camera. Your method would seem to defeat the use of layers if they are in two groups. I will look up the
rostrum camera to see if it makes more sense.

Thank you for your reply.

LBRgoof

uddhava · Post by **uddhava** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 10:09 am

Are you familiar with a rostrum camera? Then this trick wil help you: Put all of your layers into one group layer (or bone layer), and this layer into another group layer. Name one of them y and the otehr x, to avoid confusion. Now, instead of using the camera moves, move only these two layers, one only vertocal, the other only horizontal. You will always get straight movements now.

And for zooming in and out would you use the regular camera tool, slowtiger?

udd

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 1:13 pm

No, I'd do that with the scale tool on the root layer.

The benefit of this approach is that x and y movements are strictly separated, thus calculated separately. Sometimes this gives a better result than the sophisticated camera tools. It all depends on what you want.

uddhava · Post by **uddhava** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 5:11 pm

Slowtiger, thanks for the tip.

udd