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Achieving "hand-held camera" style in Maya!
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09 Feb 2010Hey guys,
I've been trying for the longest time to figure out the best way to achieve that hand-held home video camera effect with Maya. I'm just wondering if someone can just
explain to me how it is done. Is there a good easy work flow that I should be aware of? I read this somewhere and it seems interesting and I'd love to hear people's opinion:
"Some film styles involve a handheld camera, which has an organic, bumpy motion to it. This can be achieved by using dynamics. You can keyframe a cube or simple object moving around the scene to represent your overall camera move. Then inside the cube you can stick a particle, attach it to the cube using springs, and let it jiggle around lightly inside the cube. Then create a camera and constrain it to the particle."
I'm not too familiar with dynamics but it doesn't sound too complicated....I hope
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Any help would be appreciated
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18 Feb 2010
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18 Feb 2010
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18 Feb 2010because i will need to do the same for work soon, i've been messing around with maya,
i achieved this using fractal maps connected to various attributes, and i could try to write a script with a little GUI to do that (not sure if i have gathered enough skills since my autorig)...so that it would look similar to doing it on max
http://www.richardadenot.com/simplycg/s ... ndheld.mov
in there i only have 2 keys, the starting position and the end position.
all the shake is procedural and easily adjustable. -
18 Feb 2010im glad we have our own mocapstudio
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19 Feb 2010Ah Richards that's a way cooler idea! I'm going to try that when I get home.
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19 Feb 2010Oh very cool idea Richard I think I'll try that too pretty soon. Check this script that I was talking about it's actually pretty awesome for a couple reasons:
1. you can animate the attributes so it can shake fast in one scene and shake slower a few frames later.
2. "the destabilisation will always be the same by each pass playing. It's good for the multi pass render"....<---what he said
this is the link to it:
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downl ... os=windows
thanks guys...I wonder how Tyson does his?? hmm?? -
19 Feb 2010Just to let you know i wrote the script, and i'll post it tomorow.
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19 Feb 2010Dude that's awesome....can't wait!
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19 Feb 2010here s what you feed it with:
http://www.richardadenot.com/simplycg/s ... ri_web.mov
here is what you get after playing with the setting for 15 seconds
http://www.richardadenot.com/simplycg/s ... 01_web.mov
and here is an other example with more extreme settings
http://www.richardadenot.com/simplycg/s ... 02_web.mov -
19 Feb 2010The third one gives you the feel of a helicopter taking off right before an earthquake..Still it looks like a great way of tackling it..
Have you tried that script I posted?
And by the way I think you should add some fast zoom ins and zoom outs in between to help give it that "home made video" feel.
Keep bringing them on!! -
20 Feb 2010Had to fix a few things here and there...
but here goes the script.
http://www.richardadenot.com/scripts/ra_shakeIt.zip
the instructions are in the .mel file at the top of the list, i will create an readme soon.
if you encounter anything weird while ruining or using the script, let me know -
21 Feb 2010Absolutely fantastic Richard...I love it!....it works exactly like I wanted it to...and I don't have to use the "connection editor" like the other script which is great!...
I tried it out and heres the original clip:
http://fawziyahya.com/Main/Animation/Orighomevideo.html
And here's after using your script:
http://fawziyahya.com/Main/Animation/homevideo.html
Thanks so much Richard..really awesome script!
Btw...the zooming in and out was me animating the camera that way. So the Amplitude/Frequency_tz were left at zero because I didn't realize the script did that too..which is even better then expected -
22 Feb 2010nice!
as a tip, you should change the focal length rather and moving the camera forward... cause in real life, when people zoom, they don't run to the actor, they turn the lense and it zooms. changing the focal length is what this will do. -
23 Feb 2010hahaha I feel so dumb now...I guess my camera man is on crack or something! lol
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25 Feb 2010
Just had a quick play with this. Nice one Rich! I have a similar set-up, though I just used a noise expression; this looks to have much more satisfying results and a little more intuitive to use. Dang, camera shake was so much easier with Max - the ability to stack up different solvers in Max is the only thing I really miss. -
25 Feb 2010thx Global!
I miss thoses too!
An other thing i really miss is Pflow.. it was great and really simple to use!
i've never played with the particles in maya, but you have to script to play with them...
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