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Camera animation techniques to isolate specific information

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From the course: After Effects Guru: Animating Infographics

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Camera animation techniques to isolate specific information

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- Animating your infographics is really just the start of the process. To take things over the top, we need to animate some cameras in the scene. So let's dive right in. Now before we add any cameras into the scene, let's preview our animation. I'll click on the timeline to make it active, and press the spacebar to watch our preview. (upbeat music) Okay, now we can press the spacebar to stop playback. As you can see, we have two distinct animations. If I grab my current time indicator and just scrub, you can see we have the "people prefer cupcakes" build, and then we have this pie graph build. So, rather than having to control each of these elements individually, I'm gonna go ahead and use a camera to move around the scene. But before I do that, I need to make sure my layers exist in 3D space. So let's go to the bottom middle section of the interface, and toggle our switches and modes, 'til we can get to our switches. Go ahead and scroll with your mouse, all the way to the top, to…

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