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omer47
omer47
Inspiring
May 8, 2018 8:09 PM UTC
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Moving and zooming during scene

So I have this scene ready, yet, when Im recording, I want the "camera" to zoom in (as, see only part of the scene) and while zoomed in, move around a little bit before stops.

Is this possible to do on character animator ? or I have to use other programs ?

Thanks, Omer.

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Legend
May 12, 2018 6:14 AM UTC

30 minute "quick" demo of how I do camera pans and zooms. Simulated Camera Panning in Adobe Character Animator - YouTube

Quick here means "I did this quickly without much preparation, so lots of boring pauses in the video".

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alank99101739
alank99101739
Legend
May 10, 2018 11:50 AM UTC

You can do it using the “scale” transform, but it’s hard. an easier way might be to drag scene into after effects and using key framing there to zoom and pan.

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alank99101739
alank99101739Correct answer
Legend
May 12, 2018 6:14 AM UTC

30 minute "quick" demo of how I do camera pans and zooms. Simulated Camera Panning in Adobe Character Animator - YouTube

Quick here means "I did this quickly without much preparation, so lots of boring pauses in the video".

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    omer47
    omer47Author
    Inspiring
    May 12, 2018 2:56 PM UTC

    Didnt watch this yet. meanwhile, I imported my clip into After effects and zoomed + moved around over there - BUT, when zooming in, It got really blurry and in low definition. Is there a way to keep the picture sharp when zooming in ?

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    Legend
    May 8, 2018 11:48 PM UTC

    I submitted a feature request for camera zoom - feel free to vote for it! ;-)

    i do it by animating the scale transform, but if you have multiple puppets it’s tricky to synchronize them all.

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    Legend
    May 9, 2018 4:23 AM UTC

    Oh, I forgot, I created Using Blends in Adobe Character Animator - YouTube  which includes some blends which I demonstrated zooming the background. You do the same thing for a pan, but changing the “X” coordinate of the background image instead of “scale” in the transform. The background zoom is 9:15 into the video, but the first is also doing blends (to simulate walking).

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    omer47
    omer47Author
    Inspiring
    May 9, 2018 6:56 PM UTC

    Hey ! I watched the video now I understand what u did in order to make him "Walk". Yet, I cannot understand How I can move my camera inside a scene. I have a pretty simple wish: just to "move around" the scene while zoomed in. It seems impossible to scale everything up, right ?

    for example: lets say I wanna zoom in the right picture, move the camera slowly all the way to the left picture and then go down to the clock. Is there a way of doing so inside CA ?

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