From the course: Cinema 4D: Camera Animation

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Create a trailing camera with the Chase Object setting

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Create a trailing camera with the Chase Object setting

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- So, we have just spent a few hours animating a really complicated and fast move for your subject. And you have no desire to go through the same amount of work for your camera move, well lucky for you, the Motion Camera tag has a Chase Object option, which allows you to create some pretty cool animations that automatically trail your subject. Here we have a jet flying through a field of clouds as our camera is struggling to stay on it and to maintain focus. How do you recreate something like this? Well one, you animate your jet, which I have in my start scene here, and we can see it go foof! Off into the distance, gone. So it's moving quick. If we wanted to animate our camera by hand, we could try and follow along, but we wouldn't get those nice subtle variations within, and every time we reanimated our jet, we'd have to reanimate our camera. Well let's not deal with that. Let's go ahead and take our starting camera here, I'm just gonna duplicate it by Command or Control dragging out…

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