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Why and How to Use a Camera Rig

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A camera rig can make your life easier, and help your complex shots to look a bit more convincing.

Jonathan Lampel writes:

In CG, we often don’t think of our camera as a physical object. If we forget that it is, we tend to pull moves that just wouldn’t happen if you were filming something in real life. For example, it’s very rare for a camera to move straight up or down. If you’re taking a boom shot, you’ll have the camera swing up a little bit instead.

Having a good camera rig makes natural movement the default instead of the other way around. In this video, I’ll show you the simple rig that I’ve built which you can download on my website.

10 Comments

  1. Nice work. I always dislike fussing around with camera, especially when I want preview various parts of a WIP. It looks like this will make life a bit easier.

    Personally, I would be interested in a video about how you made the rig.

  2. Shouldn't you place all the pieces in a group, so it's easy to append into another .blend file? Or maybe I missed something...

  3. Very nice! I have used a quick camera rig lately and I can say there is a huge difference of the final render. I really like your camera rig Jonathan, it looks very "user friendly". Thanks for that.

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