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Animating a pan with rotation keyframes

Animating a pan with rotation keyframes - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Animating a pan with rotation keyframes

- We've seen this shot in nearly every Western we've watched. The slow pan of the desert showing just how far from civilization and help our protagonist is. Let's recreate it using just a couple of key frames, and some minor tweaks to the F-Curves in the F-Curve Manager. Go ahead and open up the starting version of this project file, and take a look around. I'm going to click out of my camera just so I can see where it is in the world, and we can see we've got this large landscape scattered with various primitive landscape objects. Now if I look through my camera, go to the coordinates tab, and play around with the heading, I've got something. It's relatively interesting. I'm going to hit Undo here, so we can get that back to those settings we had at the start and look through the camera again. Now before I start my animation, what I want to do is get my initial framing looking right, and the first thing you should do before you play around with your camera positioning and angle is to…

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