WEBVTT 00:04.080 --> 00:05.490 Hello everybody and welcome back. 00:05.550 --> 00:09.240 In this lecture we're going to focus on the camera position in our scene. 00:09.240 --> 00:14.120 Now you may already have the camera pointing directly at the object and all you need to do is render 00:14.120 --> 00:14.620 out. 00:14.700 --> 00:17.080 But as we can see here there are a couple of issues. 00:17.130 --> 00:23.650 It's firstly badly lit and secondly it's not even in frame we can't really work out what it is. 00:23.670 --> 00:28.020 So there's a couple of things that we need to do first with the camera to make sure that we can render 00:28.020 --> 00:29.790 something out successfully. 00:29.790 --> 00:34.200 Let's go have a look now and hop on over to the camera settings in Blender. 00:34.200 --> 00:35.790 Hello everybody and welcome back. 00:35.790 --> 00:36.250 Right. 00:36.270 --> 00:39.270 Let's get rid of our cube and press the X key and delete it. 00:39.330 --> 00:45.570 I'm going to add in Suzanne Suzanne the monkey because we need to make sure that we've got a direction 00:45.570 --> 00:51.080 to our objects just to demonstrate that we are in fact moving around it. 00:51.260 --> 00:55.270 Okay so now that we've done that let's have a look through our camera. 00:55.400 --> 00:56.060 How do we do that. 00:56.150 --> 01:02.230 Well we can go to the View menu cameras active camera or no pad zero. 01:02.270 --> 01:05.810 Now at this particular point you may say Yeah that's absolutely fine. 01:05.810 --> 01:10.310 But look how little Suzanne is taking up of our frame. 01:10.310 --> 01:14.300 You can see here that when we're in camera mode you can zoom in and out. 01:14.540 --> 01:16.610 But the framing does not change at all. 01:16.610 --> 01:18.020 So how do we change that. 01:18.470 --> 01:20.030 Well there are a couple of ways of doing it. 01:20.360 --> 01:24.740 If we go to our outline and left click on camera we will select the camera. 01:24.730 --> 01:27.860 You can see the camera now has an orange border. 01:27.860 --> 01:34.550 This means we can go ahead and even transform its location or indeed we can open up the properties panel 01:34.610 --> 01:44.000 of the 3D view and change its location X will move it along the x axis y along the y and of course Z 01:44.030 --> 01:45.310 on the z axis. 01:45.320 --> 01:52.520 Now when it comes to X Y and Z with rotation it can be a bit more confusing because you think well that's 01:52.520 --> 01:55.090 not rotating the way I thought it was going to. 01:55.190 --> 01:58.570 And that's because it's just pointing a different way. 01:58.820 --> 02:05.030 If we scroll down this what we can also do is lock the camera to view which means that as we move the 02:05.030 --> 02:09.970 view around the camera moves along with it. 02:10.250 --> 02:16.130 I do not like this personally and I don't use it a lot of people love it but I don't because I always 02:16.130 --> 02:24.080 forgets to until kids and I go and rotates around my view expecting to come out of camera mode and I 02:24.080 --> 02:29.960 end up moving the camera and sometimes it can be a real pain because you've set up the camera deliberately 02:29.960 --> 02:36.620 in this in a very very special position let's say we're here and we move it's along the y axis it gets 02:36.620 --> 02:39.690 closer oh let's make sure it fit for right. 02:39.690 --> 02:45.590 Once he gets his hand there we move it round we go yeah that's perfect and then I go and think oh I 02:45.590 --> 02:50.990 need to do something else in the same boom and I've ruined it and you can't just do undo all the time 02:50.990 --> 02:56.390 and get back to where you were before we can see it's taken us back to some point but not exactly where 02:56.390 --> 03:03.080 we were however my favorite way of navigating around in blender in general and especially with the camera 03:03.290 --> 03:09.890 is going to first person mode now you can do that was shift and the character next to the one on your 03:09.890 --> 03:16.580 keyboard if you don't have access to that and they won't come up on my screen capture my keys you can 03:16.580 --> 03:22.010 go to the view menu and go to navigation and I'm gonna have to scroll down a little there's walk navigation 03:22.040 --> 03:29.180 there if you want to set it's your own shortcut key you can right click and the sign a shortcut I'm 03:29.180 --> 03:34.160 not going to do that at the moment or you can add it to your quick favorites which is probably a better 03:34.160 --> 03:40.100 idea I am going to add it to my quick favorites and we'll get to those quick favorites later on so I'm 03:40.100 --> 03:45.890 gonna go shift in the number next to the also the key next to the one key and now I can move around 03:45.950 --> 03:53.480 as if I was in a first person shooter so I can press WD go forward as to go backwards a indeed strafe 03:53.480 --> 03:59.060 Q and E to go up and down as really quick at the moment I'm going to use the scroll wheel to calm it 03:59.060 --> 04:05.900 down a little there you go this is a very easy way to manipulate are seen to get it looking exactly 04:06.230 --> 04:08.260 how we want it to. 04:08.300 --> 04:12.980 There are a series of other options whilst in first person mode and you'll notice at the very bottom 04:12.980 --> 04:19.970 of the screen there are some shortcut keys that show so you can press the space bar to zoom into a certain 04:19.970 --> 04:26.420 area of your model very useful you can turn gravity on and off as well which is always an interesting 04:26.420 --> 04:31.610 one I'm looking to do at the moment cause all I will do is fall because there's no ground underneath 04:31.850 --> 04:37.610 but it does give you the ability to walk around buildings if you do that which is quite cool I'm happy 04:37.610 --> 04:45.110 with that view of Suzanne and now if I go ahead and press F 12 to render we notice that we've got her 04:45.110 --> 04:51.890 looking pretty swell and not cut off now before we move onto a challenge you can also go into the camera 04:51.890 --> 04:57.890 view by just clicking this camera icon at the top right the 3D window I sometimes forget that's there 04:57.890 --> 05:02.660 because it's brand new but that's another way of getting in if all of these controls have said this 05:02.660 --> 05:07.820 before are brilliant if you're on a laptop because you don't always have the control that you do when 05:07.820 --> 05:14.060 you're at a full desktop with a full blown mouse with a scroll wheel and a full size keyboard. 05:14.060 --> 05:16.440 Okay now it's time for your challenge. 05:16.880 --> 05:21.680 Okay so your challenge I'd like you to go ahead and position the camera so that it frames your model 05:21.710 --> 05:22.460 or scene. 05:22.490 --> 05:27.320 Well now don't worry about getting absolutely perfect at this stage just make sure you can see what 05:27.320 --> 05:29.480 you want to see of your model. 05:29.480 --> 05:32.830 Secondly feel free to alter your model or your scene. 05:32.900 --> 05:38.330 If they aren't quite right yet I know that I'm gonna go ahead and alter my scene and make the ground 05:38.330 --> 05:40.070 plane a bit larger. 05:40.070 --> 05:44.330 But if you do spot something with your new framing of course go ahead and alter it. 05:44.450 --> 05:49.770 And finally remember you can move it again later so we're not setting a final position here. 05:49.790 --> 05:52.510 We're just setting it up ready for our first render. 05:52.920 --> 05:53.490 So go ahead. 05:53.490 --> 05:57.420 Pulls a video and give that a go. 05:57.520 --> 05:58.860 Okay everybody Welcome back. 05:58.920 --> 06:04.640 Let's go and hop on over into blender and sets up our camera okay everybody welcome back. 06:04.710 --> 06:05.350 Right. 06:05.460 --> 06:08.470 The first thing I'm going to do is go ahead and open up my file. 06:08.490 --> 06:10.360 I want to work with. 06:10.470 --> 06:15.840 Okay so now that that's there I'm going to press the zero key to see what we can see go into first person 06:15.840 --> 06:16.530 mode. 06:16.710 --> 06:25.770 And I'm going to come around this side probably a little lower down can make it look a bit wider and 06:25.830 --> 06:30.730 position position over here that's looking pretty good so far. 06:31.500 --> 06:32.970 I'm liking that now. 06:32.970 --> 06:39.470 The ground itself I wanted to go out of frame so I'm literally just going to scale it up. 06:39.480 --> 06:43.000 Instead it forms horizon in the distance. 06:42.990 --> 06:44.360 That's absolutely fine. 06:44.430 --> 06:51.150 In this case now I can think about carefully where I position the camera in relation to the horizon 06:52.200 --> 06:55.800 because that does change things slightly because obviously of the horizons there. 06:55.800 --> 06:59.500 That gives a completely different look to it than if it's up here. 06:59.550 --> 07:04.070 In fact this is a great way of testing a view for a game if you think about it if you've got the viewport 07:04.080 --> 07:07.170 sets up well is it a top down game like this. 07:07.170 --> 07:09.560 Is this the scale of your model. 07:09.660 --> 07:14.550 If it is you probably wasted your time with all the detail that you can't see. 07:14.550 --> 07:18.400 However in this case I'm going to fly back round vote. 07:18.420 --> 07:20.880 Make sure you're in the camera mode when you start flying. 07:20.880 --> 07:24.890 Otherwise you're just literally flying around the screen. 07:24.920 --> 07:25.260 Okay. 07:25.290 --> 07:31.250 I was trying to use a shortcut there from an old version of blender but there we go on the sets top 07:31.260 --> 07:32.370 like that. 07:32.370 --> 07:36.300 I think that's a relatively good framing of my model. 07:36.300 --> 07:41.790 It sets up on one side we can see the detail underneath the detail on top. 07:41.820 --> 07:43.200 I quite like that. 07:43.260 --> 07:48.750 I hope you've managed to frame your subject really well and in the next lecture we'll learn how to light 07:48.810 --> 07:49.860 our subjects. 07:49.890 --> 07:54.440 Just a basic three point light setup and I'll see you in the next one.