Greetings.

I have just uploaded my first-ever iClone tutorial.

I have learned a lot from other people's tutorials, and I am pleased to be able to contribute for a change.

Topic:  Smooth Camera Motion

This is something I've been working on again lately.  I was able to combine things I ready knew with some recent tips by other users.  The result was a greatly simplified way of getting smooth camera motions that looked a lot better to me.

iClone - Pointy Hat Tutorial 1 - Smooth Camera Movement from justaviking on Vimeo.

If you are in a hurry, the most important and valuable section runs from 2:24 to 4:48.

Let me know what you think.  What did you like?  What would make it better?  I know it's not perfect, but I do want to get back to working on my Pinhead project.

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good tips,
you might want to touch on the "smooth camera movements" checkbox
in the camera menu. it does help.


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Ah, yes, good point.

In my experience it is more of a subtle fix.  Maybe it helps with "small jittery motions," I'm not sure, since I don't often have them.  Others have made similar comments that it might do some good, but doesn't help with the abruptness of the camera motions.

I would love to see a situation where it really helps.  If I notice one, I'll let you know.

I also did not mention about the "Auto Level Camera" option.  I didn't want to overwhelm either myself or my audience in my first tutorial 

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iClone 7... Character Creator... Substance Designer/Painter... Blender... Audacity...
Desktop (homebuilt) - Windows 10, Ryzen 9 3900x CPU, GTX 1080 GPU (8GB), 32GB RAM, Asus X570 Pro motherboard, 2TB SSD, terabytes of disk space, dual  monitors.
Laptop - Windows 10, MSI GS63VR STEALTH-252, 16GB RAM, GTX 1060 (6GB), 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD

An excellent first tutorial. Very informative and easy to follow along. I forget to scrub back to zero all the time... very frustrating.



Doug

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Looks great. Better than my first tutorial!

I also end up using the "remove all animation" quite a bit. That, and the one in the camera and light panes as well.

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnn!!!!!
Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo usefull!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you very much Justaviking!!

Camera mouvement is a very important feature to story telling............

Marc

Very good tutorial, examples and patient presentation

Suggestions.

Make video using one method at a time only. Newbs should always be considered. Make additional videos to show other methods this way viewers can concentrate on what you are doing one method at a time and fix in their mind.

I am not knocking anything you have done. I think most of icloners with some timeline experience can sort it out very easily.

The timeline is a dark mystery to most newbs in the beginning. The path command is even more difficult.

IMO, this is a very helpful tutorial. Please don't be offended by suggestions.

Thank you for posting it

An excellent tutorial, Viking! Definitely makes me rethink camera and motion techniques!
Well done first tut!



"Incompetence will always prevail so long as evil men stand by and do nothing."
-Martok2112

Excellent timing Viking.  I'm doing a fly-by of a pretty massive object and have two rather sharp corners in it. Like you I tried drawing a path but it was over-whelming at the scale I'm using. Your tute provides the perfect answer.  I can't wait to try it out. Will let you know.

Thanks man

pete


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Super tute! Good info! Way to go!!!


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