Video Tutorial: How to Change Cameras during an Animation in Blender

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camera_changing_thumbHere’s an easy way to change cameras during your animation without using the sequence editor.

Kernon Dillon writes:

This video tutorial will show you how to use multiple cameras in your animation, and easily control the camera switching in your animated scene.

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    • http://www.dustyghost.com dusty

      Neat!! Thank you!!!

    • http://brighterplanet.com daniel.houghton

      I like the setup!

      It got me thinking that with the script setup you’ve already built there might be an easy way to structure the layers in Blender so that when you cut to the close up on character #1, that character #2 gets hidden automatically to save memory and time during previews and renders.

      I suppose what I’m imagining is that each blender layer would be correlated to each camera’s field of view.

    • Benjamin Kay (formerly hitechboy722 / HTB)

      @daniel: as far as preview is concerned i think modern cards do that automatically.

    • Jacob

      wow thanks this will save lots of time in my up comming movie :D

    • http://blendernewbies.blogspot.com Kernon

      Here’s some additional information:

      To assign a camera to be active at multiple points during your animation, simply add the necessary frame numbers to the camera’s name, separated by commas (no space required).

      Example
      ———
      A camera desired to be the active camera at frames 48 and 1726 should be named as follows:

      48,1726

      You can have as many assignments per camera as desired, up to the character limit for object names. Note that frame numbers greater than 4 digits should not be formatted with commas (i.e. 1,429 should be named as 1429).

      Thanks, Bart!

    • http://www.youtube.com/redmoose3d Matt

      Yay, I love this script! I used in a movie I made last year: http://vimeo.com/1829488

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      Great,

      I knew its existence, but never thought to use it. I’m sure I’ll use it now !

    • http://sespiderproductionst.com SEspider

      Thank you SO MUCH for this tutorial. Been bugging me having to constantly change the camera’s angle, render new frames, and then go back and stitch them together.

      And Thank You, Kornon for additional info as well.

      Now if only there was a way to add transitions between camera changes. Hard cuts are soooooo 19th century. lol

    • http://blendernewbies.blogspot.com Kernon

      You’re welcome. BTW, I’m working on a tutorial demonstrating how to add a transition between the camera changes! :)

    • http://blendernewbies.blogspot.com Kernon

      The tutorial on how to add transitions to the camera changes is finished! You can check it out at:
      http://blendernewbies.blogspot.com/2009/09/video-adding-transitions-to-camera.html