Very fast camera movement could be unrealistic.By using a frame rate of 25 for example, means that each second of our animation will be shownby 25 frames. Camera speed affects both the render settings that we will make (as explained later)but also how good our animation will look like. Tip: in order to get a smooth and nice animation, try to use an appropriate speed for the cameramovement. Version used for this Tutorial: Presto Edition v1.2.05 Build 916įigure 3: Camera Animation at our case study sceneBlue line shows camera motion and green dots represent the defined key frames You can go to the selected camera view and play the animation to see the way the cameramoves around your scene and make any needed adjustments. You can see the path of the camera with a blue line and with green dots the keyframes that you have set up (see Figure 3).ĥ. Follow the previous steps as many times as needed for creating the animation of thecamera. Move your camera to anotherpoint of the scene, adjust its view accordingly and set up a new key frame.Ĥ. Go then to a different frame by dragging the frames bar. For adding a key frame you need to use thewhite key button as seen in Figure 2.ģ. The corresponding frame (zero for example).

Move the selected camera at the point the animation will start and set up a key frame at Open the Animation Toolbar (see Figure 2) for setting up the key frames of the animation.2. SET UP A WALKTHROUGH ANIMATIONThe first thing that one needs to do for creating a walkthrough animation is to make a cameramove around the scene and create its motion.Like all other animated objects, motion to a camera is applied by the following steps:1. INTRODUCTIONWalkthrough animation is a special kind ofanimation, where the only thing moving in the sceneis the camera.You can see an example of a walkthrough animationat the Thea Edition 1.2 Tutorials page (a preview ofthis animation is also seen in Figure 1).At this tutorial we will see the way we can preparesuch an animation for rendering, by giving the mainsteps to set up the animation and make the neededadjustments for faster and smoother results.Along with this document you are welcome todownload the corresponding scene to see thecamera and engine settings.

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