Automatically generated camera shaking

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2255744418_bbcdc716c5_o.jpgYoyofargo has posted this gem of a tutorial on Blender Artists Forums. It describes a very original way of generating automatic camera shake to camera movements using softbody. I haven’t seen anything like this method before, and it works beautifully!

Here are some movie examples of the effect:

Go to the Blender Artists Forums thread to read the tutorial.

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    • Tony

      Very clever! Great idea.

    • http://www.3developer.com ZanQdo

      wow! thats nice, thanks

    • http://www.welcometochrisworld.com Chris

      VERY clever and very natural. 5 stars!

    • http://thinningpictures.googlepages.com/ LoMca

      Quite Nice!

    • Aussiedude

      It’s sooo logical! Why didn’t anyone else think of this?!?! Why didn’t I?!?!…. simply genius. 2 thumbs up, a gold star and a cookie!

    • aws357

      “Why didn’t anyone else think of this?!?! Why didn’t I?!?!…. simply genius”

      Oh believe me. People think of it quite often :)

      Softbodies + Physics + Camera always lead some people to think : “Real life camera”

      http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=97193
      http://www.blendernewbies.com/tutorials/video/using_your_mouse_for_animation/mouse_animation_handheld.html

    • aws357

      Oh. By the way, this would be excellent if someone wish to make a Cloverfield with Blender.

      Blenderfield anyone?

    • YoYoFargo

      What I really want to do is be able to export the camera rotations as telemetry data. This way, you could make 3d video simulations for use with a motion simulator controller/program seamlessly within blender. (www.x-simulator.de)

      Oh, and yes… Aussiedude… it was a forehead slapping moment. “DUH!!!”

    • http://freezingmoon.org Dread Knight

      lol xD Brilliant

    • http://darsam.spaces.live.com DramaKing

      Too bad it doesn’t work when the camera is still. A normal camera would have jitter even when not moving.

    • Bjornmose

      DramaKing
      just a little wind an turn on AERO to 50 or so

    • http://gamebrewers.com Kukanani

      wow! it looks like a cameraman, without a tripod! looks handheld, very cool.

    • claws

      haven’t read the page yet, but it sounds really great. This though not new, can really make or break a short story animation. A novel way to do it, but im missing the small jitters that usually comes with handhelds.

    • cekuhnen

      lol fricken smart idea !!!

    • http://www.blenderunderground.com Apollos

      This is absolutely brilliant. Nice work. :o

    • omar alberto

      Esta bien bacano …lo felicito

    • Alex Blank

      It works very well for the bumper-cam of a racing/space game for simulating how inertia would be displayed (might toggle the stiffness however as a bumper-cam wouldn’t shake that much)…

    • Psion

      Brilliant!

    • rubicon

      Very nice. It looks great but for a ‘handheld’ look, it’s still not jiggly enough. Hint: you can even get rid of the armature ;)
      select the camera, -select the softbody, enter editmode, select 3(!) vertices, ctrl-p (vertex parent) and the camera will follow motion AND rotation of these vertices.

    • YoYoFargo

      The armature, for me anyway, is more of an “ease of use” feature than a need. What I do is I hide the softbody and the camera in an unrendered layer, and I just leave the bone.

    • http://catcproductions.co.nr Moxab

      hehe, now I can make a cg Bourne Ultimatum sequence easily!

    • shoiblem

      cloverfield SUCKS. go ahead and use that cutting-edge ‘shaky camera’ effect… you are soooo cool…. really ‘out of the box’ thinking there…. oooh you are so cool!!!
      I WILL NOT WATCH YOUR FILM.

    • claws

      Well seems I remember a scripts from years back that added jitter to the camera IPO – anyone else remember that script (dont recall the name)? That IPO jitter could just be added to the triangle/bone IPO.

      grrr why can’t i remeber the name of that script.

      I did a little digging while writing this:

      http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=103050

      http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Scripts/Catalog/AnimationPage2#camera_jitter

      this was I came up with – with a little effort more will show up, but it’s time for bed :)

    • http://advanced-lemon.blogspot.com/ epat

      NICE!!…

    • derek-hey!

      0_o wow, alittle negative there…

      this is a killer technique, and is really inspiring for new inovative thoughts all around.

      Great stuff,
      I WILL WATCH YOUR FILM.