WEBVTT 00:01.250 --> 00:03.140 In this lesson, we're going to create our render cams. 00:03.180 --> 00:10.340 I'm going to go to create cameras, camera, then I'm going to pull up the move manipulator and move 00:10.670 --> 00:12.290 the camera back 10 units. 00:16.090 --> 00:22.870 And now the ideas, I'm going to attach the camera to a motion path, but I want to do that through 00:22.900 --> 00:28.230 the means of a locator so that our camera is still freely animated. 00:28.720 --> 00:30.260 And I'll show you what I mean here in a minute. 00:30.520 --> 00:31.540 So let's create a curve. 00:31.750 --> 00:37.990 Scale that up by 10, because we know we moved our camera back 10 so that the render cam and the curve 00:37.990 --> 00:40.910 line up with each other to see the render cam view and our perspective. 00:41.020 --> 00:46.360 At the same time, I'm going to go to layout's to pain side by side in the right view. 00:46.360 --> 00:52.570 I'm going to hold down spacebar left click the Maya icon in the middle and drag and release my left 00:52.570 --> 00:55.870 mouse button over perspective view in this panel. 00:55.870 --> 00:57.700 I'm going to choose the new camera. 00:57.820 --> 01:02.880 I'm also going to rename it by double clicking in the outliner and calling it a render cam hitting enter. 01:03.340 --> 01:10.660 Now I'm going to turn on the resolution gate, hold down the backslash button on your keyboard. 01:10.690 --> 01:12.940 That's underneath the backspace or delete key. 01:13.300 --> 01:15.940 And I'm going to to the pan and zoom out. 01:15.940 --> 01:17.260 We're not actually moving the camera. 01:17.260 --> 01:19.450 We can see see it's still staying where it's at. 01:20.170 --> 01:22.180 The other thing so we can see both views. 01:22.180 --> 01:24.490 Update at the same time is in the render settings. 01:24.490 --> 01:28.810 You want to make sure under time, slider, your playback is set to update you all. 01:29.620 --> 01:33.010 Now I want to create a locator for our motion path for the camera. 01:33.340 --> 01:37.120 Go to create locator before we attach the locator to our curve. 01:37.120 --> 01:42.610 I want to extend the timeline out to frame one twenty again, which is our bowl frame, because when 01:42.610 --> 01:47.800 we attach this to the curve via a motion path, it's going to automatically set a key frame at the beginning 01:47.800 --> 01:48.130 and end. 01:48.340 --> 01:51.220 And we know that our Lupul frame is on frame one twenty. 01:51.460 --> 01:52.570 So that's why we want to extend it. 01:52.570 --> 01:58.030 Before we shift, click the circle and go to constrain motion paths attached to motion path. 01:58.720 --> 02:05.080 Now our locator is animating along the curve that we've just created and we want to attach our camera 02:05.080 --> 02:05.950 to that locator. 02:06.460 --> 02:14.800 So let's rotate the circle around 180 degrees and Y by typing and rotate y 180. 02:15.400 --> 02:22.060 Now, because of the scale the ten and our camera is moved in ten, we know that the locator and the 02:22.060 --> 02:23.710 camera are lined up with each other. 02:24.040 --> 02:27.910 So I'm in the middle mouse button, drag the render cam into the locator. 02:28.390 --> 02:31.230 That means the render cam is now a child of the locator. 02:31.240 --> 02:32.010 It's going to follow it. 02:32.260 --> 02:37.720 So now when I scrub, we can see that the camera is actually following the motion of our motion path. 02:38.140 --> 02:42.400 What's special about this relationship, though, is the fact that if you look at our inner cam channel 02:42.400 --> 02:48.130 box, none of these transforms have attachments or connections coming to them. 02:48.670 --> 02:53.620 Whereas if you look at the locator we cuts attached to motion path, you can see that these transforms 02:53.620 --> 02:56.800 are locked because they're already in use by the motion path. 02:57.250 --> 03:02.950 So that means that we cannot animate the locator, but because the render cam as a child of it, it 03:02.950 --> 03:08.650 will follow and we have access to animating these transforms if we want to add more animation to it. 03:09.250 --> 03:12.490 But first, let's get the camera moving exactly how we want it to. 03:12.680 --> 03:18.190 I'm going to select the curve and rotate it to the correct start position that I want to have for our 03:18.190 --> 03:18.850 animation. 03:21.080 --> 03:31.160 So I want to just move off center just a little bit and I will scrub forward in time to about the same 03:31.160 --> 03:34.130 distance apart on the right side of this. 03:34.550 --> 03:42.200 If you're looking at the grid here, I can just hide this Skydome for now by holding control h to hide 03:42.200 --> 03:42.380 it. 03:42.890 --> 03:48.260 And you can see that the animation of the camera can be roughly even on either side just by scrubbing 03:48.260 --> 03:49.220 forward in the timeline. 03:49.820 --> 03:52.220 Now I can see the curve or the locator. 03:52.250 --> 03:56.180 Go to the Ashry editor and choose motion path to right. 03:56.180 --> 03:57.900 Click on the value instead of keyframe. 03:58.640 --> 04:05.840 Now you can see that frame pops up as a key frame in our motion path to get access to these key frames 04:05.840 --> 04:09.230 in our timeline, I needed to select the motion path by choosing the select button here. 04:09.830 --> 04:11.780 I can go to the frame here, right. 04:11.780 --> 04:16.430 Click and choose delete because now we have our new end frame here, which is actually going to be the 04:16.430 --> 04:17.420 same as the start. 04:17.750 --> 04:23.990 So I'm going to go to frame one middle mouse, drag in the timeline all the way to the end and then 04:23.990 --> 04:25.100 go to the value. 04:25.100 --> 04:25.370 Right. 04:25.370 --> 04:26.750 Click and choose that key frame. 04:27.140 --> 04:29.870 Now we've just copied and pasted that you value to the end. 04:30.560 --> 04:35.630 Now I just need to move this middle key frame to the actual middle of our timeline, which we know half 04:35.630 --> 04:36.650 of one twenty is sixty. 04:36.650 --> 04:38.030 So to move it to frame sixty. 04:39.380 --> 04:44.930 So now if we playback this camera, we have a loop animation that goes back and forth between these 04:44.930 --> 04:45.830 two distances. 04:48.370 --> 04:54.310 Let's jump back into seeing the Skydome light, which is also going to act as our background, and I 04:54.310 --> 05:02.260 just want to rotate this so that the middle frame includes the green background just for aesthetic reasons 05:02.260 --> 05:05.050 of having something green behind our red object. 05:05.320 --> 05:07.430 We'll add some color contrast to this render. 05:08.080 --> 05:13.510 Now, if I want to move the render cam at all, all I have to do is just adjust the actual curve by 05:13.510 --> 05:16.330 scaling and moving it to reframe our object here. 05:17.110 --> 05:19.530 So scrubbing in the time line, that looks pretty good. 05:19.540 --> 05:23.910 I might need to rotate this back so the frame has some more green in frame as well. 05:25.820 --> 05:32.630 So if we wanted to add more hand-held motion to this, we can choose the winner can go to the attrited 05:32.630 --> 05:35.540 editors and I know I only want to animate the rotation. 05:35.540 --> 05:39.290 Someone hit shifty and you can see it'll only set keyframes on the rotation. 05:39.500 --> 05:43.460 So I'm going to go to the beginning and end keyframes and hit shifted to make sure that they match. 05:43.760 --> 05:49.610 Then I can just rotate the camera at different angles throughout the animation to make it have a bit 05:49.610 --> 05:51.290 more of a hand-held feel to it. 05:51.530 --> 05:56.630 And I don't want to go too far off the zero values and I just want this to be a very subtle effect. 05:56.810 --> 06:02.720 So I'm just barely rotating the camera and we have a little bit more of a hand-held feel to our animation 06:02.900 --> 06:03.770 in the next lesson. 06:03.770 --> 06:09.080 Let's take a break from this orb and I'll show you how we can apply this same effect to text.