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Midge Sinnaeve
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2: Camera Control & Basic Cinematography

Quick Camera Rig

Using a camera rig can really improve the look of your shots. In this video, you'll learn how to set up a very basic camera rig to create some awesome sweeping shots.

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13 comments
Neeraj Bharati
Neeraj Bharati
May 11th, 2023

This is such a wonderful tip !! I have used dolly camera rig that comes built in to Blender but this one seems far better. Great video !!

alan sarkissian
alan sarkissian
Sept. 10th, 2022

Fantastic!

Rok Slana
Rok Slana
July 15th, 2020

Man, I feel like I am in a gold mine right now...does anyone else know about this ? :D

Mr Ofnoctonod
Mr Ofnoctonod
June 21st, 2020

Hi Midge. I know this is forever and a day after the video was made but in the beginning as you dragged the offset value and the camera spirals around, at 3:40, that looked like quite an interesting move too! Thanks for this great teaching!

Surendra Kumar
Surendra Kumar
May 8th, 2018

Hi. When I am linking blenderman file objects, the blenderman comes scaled-down as compared to other objects already in the scene in Blender 2.79b. I don't know if I am missing something. I am new to blender. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Midge Sinnaeve
Midge Sinnaeve
May 10th, 2018

@Surendra Kumar: Are these assets you've previously made in the scene? If so, your scene scale might be set differently than mine.

Surendra Kumar
Surendra Kumar
Nov. 8th, 2020

@Midge Sinnaeve Now, almost 2 years later, I realize what a stupid question I had asked :)

Paul McManus
Paul McManus
May 3rd, 2017

I love the straightforward approach to this rig. Definitely worth trying out in a future project (or two :) )

Jan van den Hemel
Jan van den Hemel
April 20th, 2017

Absolutely fantastic. Great video!

David mcsween
David mcsween
April 17th, 2017

Nice rig! A lot quicker than dragging around verts of an open bezier curve

Jorge  Losilla
Jorge Losilla
April 6th, 2017

This is great. I´m going to use it in daily basis. Only for this video, the training will be worthy to me, even if it it´s cost was 100$

Midge Sinnaeve
Midge Sinnaeve
April 6th, 2017

@thexchanger: That's great to hear! Combining a lot of simple tricks can really make a big difference. :)

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Jorge  Losilla
Jorge Losilla
April 7th, 2017

@mantissa: Yeahh. But this one superb. It makes things a lot easier.

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