(1/27/12) 5 Second Study: Motion Transition / Camera Moves

During class, we were taught all the basic to using cameras in Cinema 4D. And to be honest, the basics are still somewhat confusing. It obviously will take a lot of time and practice to truly figure out the camera systems in the program. That is why the next three studies will really help us because they explore these camera systems.

The first of the three studies is centered around motion clips. The idea of a motion clip is to be able to shoot footage of one motion and add it to a separate composition as a single layer. This is an incredible tool because it allows for someone to be able to save a motion and be able to manipulate it, without destroying the original just in case you needed to go back. It also is a nice way to avoid clutter in a file. The goal of this project was to incorporate two of these motion clips in a single composition. For this, I decided to use two swinging torus' that have a rotating pyramid at center. The first clip explores the torus' simple rotating around the pyramid and the second clip is about the objects falling beneath a plane after completely stopping their movement. 

This is the result of this study:

The second of the three studies is one that relates to using target cameras. For this, we were to set up a simple camera that was targeted to an object and clearly show how the camera followed that object when moved in space. The focus would always be on the object no matter the position. This is the result of this study:

The last of the three studies dealt with experimenting with using more than one camera. To do this you would need obviously more than one camera and animate them within a composition and then use a stage object to animate the cuts between camera movements. This is the result of this project: