3D Camera Animation: Zoom, Dolly, Truck, Orbit, Pan

Zooming and Dollying are related, but there is an important difference between the two.

Dollying is where you physically move the camera, but the focal length stays the same.

In contrast, Zooming is where you change the camera’s Field of View.

Truck refers to moving a camera parallel to the image plane. If you’re using a Target camera that would mean moving both the camera and its Target parallel to the Camera view.

Orbit refers to moving the camera around a target.

Panning is where the Target would rotate around the Target Camera. If you’re using a Free camera, you would rotate the camera around its local axes.

3D in Depth: Cameras

MEGA DESTRUCTION

Building the city and blowing it up were both major challenges. Denis explained how they tackled the issue of level of detail up front. "We were thinking about creating hero models for certain buildings. We did in some cases, but for the most part it worked so we used the procedural CG buildings for most of the shots, even the very close up buildings.

" The herculean city was built procedurally, taking nine to twelve months to complete. And it still needed to be populated. "We wanted to make sure the city was alive with crowds, and we used Massive to simulate the traffic throughout the city." They also used Maya, Houdini, the Blast Code plug-in, Nuke for compositing, and DWA's proprietary software.