Skillshare – How to Animate Action Camera Moves Frame by Frame

In this class you’ll learn:

• Drawing exercises for camera moves – Learn what exercise and what drawing techniques to work on to improve the quality of your animations.
• Parallax – Quickly learn the secrets of the parallax effect, the phenomenon that animators replicate in their work to convey camera moves true to life.
• Perspective – Get to know how objects change as they are viewed from different angles.
• How to plan a camera move – Follow along as Johannes breaks down the complex subject of camera moves into easy to learn parts.
• The theory of Dynamic Camera moves – You will learn what differentiates a stiff and rigid camera move and a dynamic one and how to apply it to your own animations.
• How to Animate a simple tracking camera move – You’ll learn how to animate a tracking camera move just by using 2 easy to master techniques.
• How to Animate a dolly style camera move – Johannes will show you how to animate a camera traveling forward along a ground plane, a fundamental technique that can be expanded on to make any kind of camera move you can imagine.
• How to Animate an anime style camera move – You’ll learn how to animate an anime style camera move where the camera is tracking an object like an energy bolt as it’s flying through the air.
• How to Animate an action style camera move – In this final lesson you’ll combine all the techniques from the previous lesson and learn how to animate a dynamic action style camera move where the camera is following an object as it twists and turns in “3D” space.