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Animating cameras: Following objects

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Animating cameras: Following objects

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- [Instructor] Now let's pretend you had an awesome scene with a cube flying through the air and you had a camera that was trying to follow it. How would you do it? Well, if you had a flying cube, let's go ahead and just move this little guy here, click on auto key, location rotation scale, hit I and all the way to the end, super flying cube in auto key look at that, awesome. Now let's go through our camera, view, camera or zero on the number pad and lock camera to view, we can try to rotate, stare at this cube, it already auto keyed because we have auto key on. Now the cube is moving so we're going to have to try to keep up with it. And I mean that's one way of doing it I guess but it's kind of dirty and it's a little messy especially if the cube suddenly decided at this point to jut this way and then you'd have to rotate and it gets kind of messy. So you can kind of see where I'm going here. This is not a good way of tracking a cube. So let me show you a better way. Hit control N…

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