15 Immediately Useful Camera Tricks in Blender 2.8

[@mycroft16]

Stayed to the end. Did not regret it. Node based DoF and motion blur in compositing... that's awesome. Did not know that.

[@KevBinge]

Thanks! I find that the better compositing packages allow for faster DOF and motion blur than doing it in camera, and often give you more leverage later on.

[@mycroft16]

@@KevBinge Yeah, like when you decide that's not enough motion blur, but don't have to re-render the whole dang thing.

[@KevBinge]

Exactly! You can always get “more cowbell!” 😀

[@jojogape]

I can't believe I just learned so many things I wanted to know for my current animation. So much knowledge in almost 14 minutes. Thank you.

[@KevBinge]

Awesome! You’re welcome.

[@jojo-zv2ls]

Me too

[@dreamsprayanimation]

Now don’t forget it.

[@MasterTevs]

I've been searching for depth of field in post for so long, Thank you for this ! Also, a tip for anyone who's reading this, if you've already rendered stuff without the passes, set the sample size to something like 1( but DO NOT change the resolution) then in the compositor, hook up the passes from the render layers node as the inputs for the vector blur or whatever, while keeping the image sequence input from the folder you rendered out to. I have used it for a couple of effects but just ensure that it works for what you want by rendering out a frame or so, if you're using this method.

[@KevBinge]

Nice addition! You’re welcome as well. It’s powerful 😀

[@H53.]

"For people who really wanna learn, and be here."

[@KevBinge]

😀😀

[@stuartdoyle99]

This just made me appreciate blender even more (it was already well appreciated)

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!! It’s a great program that keeps getting better 😀

[@DanielKrafft]

Awesome! Great stuff kev/blender binge

[@KevBinge]

Thanks Daniel/Daniel lol! Always looking forward to your videos as well!!

[@vaisakhmannalath8135]

Hey...good seeing you here....love your work...would you do a render engine comparison for your next video...?

[@KevBinge]

Vray, Arnold, Mantra, Redshift, Cycles, EEVEE, Karma, and Lightwave. Pick one and run with it. They all rock!!

[@dagbagz2916]

Amazing video, dude! I’m falling more and more in love with blender, and I can’t wait to try out these camera techniques!!

[@KevBinge]

Thanks! Go for it, it’s fun!

[@dagbagz2916]

blenderBinge oh baby I will! ❤️

[@cgenigma675]

you must be god level now

[@mrhollywood1173]

Learned a S**t load from your site. Your suggestions pop up when I'm trying something and I just refer to your tuts. Thanks mate !!!

[@KevBinge]

Awesome to hear! Thanks man!!

[@Hyraethian]

"Zero out your camera by hitting Alt+G then Alt+R" Single most helpful tip I personally got out of this. Thank you so much.

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😀

[@lodgechant]

WOW! What a treasure chest. Thank you! Considering how much of a beginner I still am, this will keep me happily chewing for quite a while. With greetings from Cape Town...

[@KevBinge]

Thanks! I’m glad it helps! Cape Town SA, cool!

[@derdugati7126]

Gold. Timeless. Thank you! Really cool summary of inspiring camera tips!

[@KevBinge]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@pernicketycurmudgeon2404]

Now that's a video. Heaps of on point info at pace.

[@KevBinge]

Thank you!!

[@pernicketycurmudgeon2404]

@@KevBinge You inspired me to have a go. So thank you. kzbin.info/www/bejne/goazhWeJmtOapqs

[@I_am_Spartacus]

Probably the single most concise video on YT on this matter..... bloody awesome!!!

[@KevBinge]

Thank you!! I don’t know why this comment was stuck in limbo. I’m glad it helps 😀

[@bagoquarks]

In the early '70s I took a photography class where the instructor included the "Rule of Thirds" 4:38 topic and attributed it to Ansel Adams. I don't know if Adams invented this "rule" but the lesson stuck with me. Whenever I am taking a landscape photo I am: choosing where I stand, pre-cropping my composition, and picking between landscape and portrait mode - all driven by the Rule of Thirds. For new photographers: if you realize your sky and your land/water are each a vertical 50% of the shot just adjust to make one either one-third or two-thirds. When you've mastered the vertical, check your horizontal - e.g. - a tree, a building edge, or a person can define a third. One can also think of it as a (3x3) rule of ninths.

[@KevBinge]

That’s GREAT advice! Thanks for sharing.

[@iamgruff]

Absolutely bloody brilliant guide to Blender Camera pwnage - you rule, thank you so much!

[@KevBinge]

Thanks Gruffy!

[@sxpxixcx]

I can believe how crazy good this video is one of the best I’ve seen yet thank you so much you’re a goat 🙏🙏🙏

[@KevBinge]

Thank you so much Jorge. I really liked making this one.

[@Mainman0011]

I'm making an add-on that places commonly used camera settings into the Tools panel. I may add some of your settings as presets later ;) Thank you for taking the time to make this video :)

[@KevBinge]

Awesome!! I’d love to see it whenever you finish it.

[@simeon_vkv]

Crazy helpful and needed tutoral giving more depth to already known one and some new camera tricks. Good job and big thanks!

[@KevBinge]

Thank you!

[@ravitejachavan1140]

Everything you need about Blender Camera, GREAT VIDEO!

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!! It’s not everything, but things I use. 😀😀

[@DECODEDVFX]

That's a really handy video.

[@KevBinge]

Thanks DECODED!! These take me forever to make and I always still end up wishing I’d added more haha!!

[@DECODEDVFX]

@@KevBinge I know the feeling.

[@ajaysinha8498]

Sir very useful information about cameras thax dear ....

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome Sir!

[@sofializelleocon5704]

HEYYYY!!! THIS TUTORIAL HELPED IN THE LAST 2 MINS OF MY PROJECT! at 3:09.. That's what I was looking for. I thought I could set "focus of object" to ANY object to change the focus, but it's actually the EMPTY that helps! EMPTY - may sound "empty" but such a powerful tool! Lol

[@KevBinge]

That’s so awesome Sofia!!

[@sofializelleocon5704]

@@KevBinge Thank you! and you are legend!

[@cloudcloud1]

✨ *Great tutorial* ✨

[@KevBinge]

Thank you! 😀

[@cloudcloud1]

@@KevBinge 👍

[@hunkadoodledoo]

Just a quick tweak: HD is 720P, FHD or Full HD is 1080P.

[@KevBinge]

Well, true 😀

[@AndyBobMcKee]

And 2k is 2048 height. Depending on aspect ratio you have 1998x1080 or 2058x858 for 1.85:1 and 2.39:1 respectively.

[@chlbrn]

KZbin don't think 720p is HD...

[@zenahrb8316]

to be exact: 720p --- "HD-Ready" 1080p --- "Full HD" and the fun one I do actually sometimes need to remember: 640x480 --- VGA

[@fergadelics]

Pound for pound, this is the most helpful tutorial I’ve seen in a while. I like all your videos but this one is triple bookmark with a hearted star helpful. I’ve spent I don’t know how hours/ days on this short animation and it’s time to not make the camera look like it’s not a stiff unnaturally keyframed POS. Man, this to the point video just... just thank you, sincerely. Made my day. You killed it. I mean, you didn’t kill my day. It’s better now. Yay

[@KevBinge]

I’m very happy that I could help Jason! I learned many of these the hard way and still don’t listen to myself half the time 🤣🤣. Thanks!!

[@choo_choo_]

Better tip than the whole "Lock Camera to View" thing; just press "shift+f" while in camera view, and you'll enter a kind of FPS styled no-clip mode (called "fly view"), where you can just use WSAD to move the camera around and use mouselook to point it. You can also use it outside of the camera view to get exactly where you want when modelling (super useful when panning/orbiting/zooming just doesn't cut it). I find it way more useful than locking the camera to the view and doing the same orbits and movements that you're already doing, because it ends up looking "too cg" with how the camera is placed because you've just orbited around the object. Fly view is a much more natural way of pointing the camera, and positioning it in a believable manner. Though now that I've got a 3d mouse, I find myself using the lock camera more since I can just use that to point the camera instantly where I want.

[@KevBinge]

You’re right, I should have addressed that too. I often forget that Blender has that functionality.

[@tupacfilms]

Loved your simple jib crane rig very effectiv thanks. My contribution : add "lock camera to view" into "quick menus" by right clicking on it and say add to quick menus. Saves space & pressing N Tab everytime with on little screen. Press Q to acess it.

[@KevBinge]

Very true!! I do that in other videos and should have added that here too. Thanks!!

[@eldarra562]

WOW!!!Bro its very nice tutorial!This is what I was looking for!Many thanks!

[@GaryParris]

Excellently done, Well done! And yes more 3D and digital artists should learn photography and visual arts to give you more understanding.

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!! Learning things off the computer has really helped me on the computer 😀

[@alexanderjaeger]

This is the most fun Blender tutorial I watched so far! Love it :-)

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!!

[@DavidJohnson-dc8lu]

I came real close to asking why Blender made camera operations so bloody hard to get to grips with, and by the end of this video, finally becoming good with camera work, and picking up real tricks I never intended or thought of. Cheers!

[@KevBinge]

Thanks Dave! I learn from some really good people, and stand on the shoulders of actual giants 😁😁

[@Xperto_]

Thing are just unnecessarily complicated in Blender

[@davidcripps3011]

A fantastic info dump and so, so useful. Good camera work can make average scenes pump. Many thanks :-)

[@KevBinge]

Thanks David, it sure can!!

[@GiuTor73]

Very very useful and practical tutorial. Thanks a lot for making it!

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome, I hope it helps!

[@mackdaddprod]

#9 Active Camera - wow, thanks for that! Super useful!

[@KevBinge]

Thanks! I almost didn’t include it because I was like, “really... who’s going to care about this...”, but I got so many questions about it and realized maybe it’s worth putting in lol!

[@spikerama]

That's a top notch list mate. Really thorough explanations too. And of course your trademark delivery. Thanks for sharing.

[@KevBinge]

Thank you! I love it that I may have a trademark delivery 😀😀

[@1TheRaven]

Well made brother.

[@KevBinge]

Thank you!!!!

[@Myzelfa]

TLDR: Learning about real photography will help you produce better digital photography.

[@KevBinge]

Pretty much lol!!

[@Myzelfa]

@@KevBinge Although the stuff on the end about rigging was new to me.

[@IvinNayaYoesel]

I was subbed from so long, but i had no idea that some of the most useful thing I needed to know was right here :D Thanks!!

[@KevBinge]

That’s awesome!

[@rose_watr]

🔥 thanks for subtitles

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome!

[@lucas-correa]

Omg, this tutorial is so useful! I wish I had seen this before

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!

[@ValorCro]

Mind blowing tips!👍

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!!

[@alices.8356]

your tutorials are the besttt, thank you for the insane amount of very useful information along with a warm, supportive and inspiring attitude!

[@KevBinge]

Thanks Alice! I try sometimes 😊

[@sodarkfilms101]

This is awesome! Thank you!

[@KevBinge]

You're welcome, and thank you!!

[@marcelomolina5005]

Thanks a lot!!! This tutorial is awesome!!!

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome! Thanks!!

[@jrsmoots]

This vid is packed with useful knowledge. Thanks for doing this! Bookmarked!

[@KevBinge]

Thank you so much! I tried and hopefully didn’t leave too much out on this level lol.

[@vahidamini1863]

Thank You So Much...

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome.

[@Salaar_Masud]

Thanks - very useful indeed!

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome. Thanks!

[@RG3DAnimationstudio]

Thank you for the video, I learned new tricks from it.

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😀

[@Spacecookie-]

Thanks lots. This has been very helpful.

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😀😀. Thanks!!

[@mcastro477]

Fantastic tutorial. Thanks, man!

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome, and thank you!

[@riddles5701]

This is awesome!

[@hackerr2656]

very userful and informative video!

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!

[@maverick.gaurav]

Great content...! It's very rare for me to subscribe after watching a single video. But your content is really good. I've been using blender for a while now and I didn't know many of these things.

[@KevBinge]

That’s awesome! Thank you 😀. There are some really cool features in this software that aren’t immediately noticeable. I find lots of things by accident haha!

[@maverick.gaurav]

@@KevBinge Well accidents are good. I found you by accident. 😄 Keep making great videos. I really like how it is to the point. No bullshit. 15 new things in 14 minutes. Who wouldn't want that? I don't know how much time you are giving to your channel, but if I may suggest, for videos like these you can have time-title (00:17-Resolution Settings) in the description. So that people can easily jump to the topic they want. Because I will come back to this video again later to revisit these when I'm working on my next project.

[@paradox9603]

Thanks, it helped me a lot.

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome.

[@majidmahjoorart]

Hello dear master. I hope you are great. Thank you for this comprehensive and excellent tutorial. I had a question . In order to get a 3D print of our work and the result is similar to what we see on the monitor, how can we set the camera in perspective mode in Blender. It means that the camera settings should be in such a way that what we see on the monitor is like what we see with our eyes in reality. Thank you in advance😍

[@KevBinge]

That’s a very tricky one as 3D printing is additive layer mostly, at least at the moment. I’d use the orthographic cameras for that. The perspective cameras can warp the perspective. Get the look in the front, side, and too viewports and it “should” mitigate the perspective foreshortening. Is that what you’d meant?

[@paperlabarts6042]

Thanks a lot for this tutorial! ;)

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😀

[@DannyLucid76]

Super helpful!, thanks.

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😀

[@dwon7781]

Thanks Binge, lots of great info.

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😀

[@descendinguniverse]

good tips, thanks!

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome, thanks!

[@michaelsmusicinstruments9980]

Many thanks, I have been looking for these camera settings for a long time. great explained. didn't even know that we have these camera rigs inside blender, great

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😀. They are nice to have for some things.

[@mmcganimetic]

最高です！！！めっちゃ勉強になります！！！！

[@Cat-Nipples]

日本語知らないからせんせんわからない

[@firdauszainudin7118]

Please do more on this, Sir. I want to learn cinematography in Blender

[@KevBinge]

Sure!! Thanks!!

[@katyb3869]

Thanks, Kev. I so needed this!

[@KevBinge]

Awesome Katy! You’re welcome 😀

[@Clases3d]

thanks, very cool and useful, I have 2 main questions, I hope you can help please, firstly I come from cinema 4d and one very important thing there is that if you create a camera it focus in what you are actually viewing, how you can do something like that in blender? and another thing, how you can animate in blender the change of diferent cameras in your scene? this things are very important, can you help me?

[@JoeyCarlino]

Or you could just use a track to constraint, but I think the other method I mentioned gives more control.

[@Clases3d]

@@JoeyCarlino thats not what I want is harder

[@Will_Scobie]

excellent, thanks Kev!

[@KevBinge]

You’re most welcome Will! 😀

[@Automatik234]

Great tips!

[@KevBinge]

Thank you!!

[@jenchristensen66]

Great tips, thank you so much.

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😀😀

[@Smoses_senpai]

Those are some really cool tricks. I'll be using that moving focus for my current project^^

[@KevBinge]

Awesome!! Good luck. It’s fun 😀

[@alithomaga]

Great thank you dude for this video!

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome, and thanks!!!

[@skoldo]

Congrats on your channel! I can tell you as a complete noob in blender and designs in general these tips have been superuseful! If you could help me with a small non-related" question (that I assume it will be super easy), I would be very thankful. The idea is simple: I want to create an object (for example a cube) and save it as a 3D that you can rotate the observation angle (like panoramic). The idea is to explain the concept of tomographies and those technologies to students. regards and congrats!

[@kiwifruit3d]

Love this video

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!!

[@jaanov6094]

Thank you

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome.

[@Mr_Steve3D]

Great video, too much LUUUUVE

[@KevBinge]

Thank you Mr. Steve!

[@jurgenvantomme]

Very, very, very interesting thank you.

[@KevBinge]

Thank you!! 😀

[@tcheadriano]

Nice tips!!

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!!

[@BramvanVliet]

I'm a huge fan of rack focus 😉

[@KevBinge]

Me too! I love it when people use it to enhance narrative.

[@jojo-zv2ls]

You save my life

[@KevBinge]

I’m very happy to hear that!

[@Deviiie]

thank you for the awesome tutorial Kev! I would really appreciate it if you made a video on free plugins that helps in hard surface modeling or tips about hard surface modeling.

[@KevBinge]

I may go down that road at some point. Thanks!!

[@seemongs1712]

Grate ideas 💡. Thank u.

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome.

[@yixinwang3956]

THIS SO SO GREAT! THANK YOU!!

[@KevBinge]

Thanks!!

[@Rocklaz]

wonderful. Thanks.

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome!

[@Okhanor]

Amazing!! Subscribed.

[@KevBinge]

Thank you! Welcome 😀

[@zakiroyhan]

Thank You!!!

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😀

[@AndyRedwood]

Super-duper helpful, thanks (:

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome, and thank you!

[@Kaffeeteria]

Thank you!

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😀

[@izuix5629]

7:03 enabling Follow Curve works too

[@Avikarr]

Awesome! Thank you for this! :D Very helpful. In addition to this, I recommend Photographer addon - even more options to set your camera real-life-like in blender.

[@KevBinge]

I’ve seen that. I’ll probably pick it up. Thanks!!!

[@Avikarr]

@@KevBinge Heh, i just watched video from developer of Photographer addon, and from what he says, it'll be probably implemented into Blender core in near future. How cool is that? :D Open-source software is amazing.

[@berndwarnders]

The 'Hitchcock Effect' is actually called the Vertigo Effect (first used in Hitchcock's film Vertigo)

[@lebenin3604]

So helpful! Thank you. #Blender #3danimation #3dcameras

[@campwillbegone4585]

The openEXR is HUGE when rendering 4k say 500 frames it's like 300-400 Gig's. I Was woundering what if any compression do you use? I am using the DWAA Codec. It dropped my file size to 200 mb but am looking into mass storage for the future. Silly me thinking 4 one TB hard drives would be plenty and a 2 TB soild state HD. Nice Vid so much to learn.

[@KevBinge]

Yeah, they are HUGE. You don’t always need that much data though, and can get by with 16-bit if 32 is too much. Passes like ambient occlusion and fog also don’t need to be that high bit-depth either. It’s always a balance for me if that helps?

[@dannybouchard4140]

Thanks again Kev! Great job. This video has me thinking now.... I want to create a dogfight scene in which a human fighter is engaging and destroying an alien bomber. At first I started with a path curve, but now am wondering if using the camera instead of the path would be easier for me and yield better results at the end. Cheers amigo!

[@KevBinge]

Awesome! I’d give it a try and see. Sounds like a cool shot 😀

[@dhavalanjaria203]

I want to learn blender for this EXACT reason. I want to practice composition and photography in general in blender.

[@KevBinge]

That’s a solid reason to learn it, definitely!

[@ERICBOND2222]

thanks a lot !

Wow, cool stuff. Thank you so much!

[@KevBinge]

Thanks, and you’re welcome!

[@KD9-37]

this video is great and funny XD thank you!

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome, and thanks!!

[@aliensoup2420]

Good points. I'll offer a minor quibble that doesn't change anything you said, but is a more accurate way of thinking about focal length... Using the term "compression" to describe the difference between wide angle and telephoto is somewhat misleading, although everybody does it. The images are actually the same, but the telephoto is simply a magnified portion of the wide angle image, and the same compression between near and distant objects exists in both images. To say that the telephoto image is more compressed suggests that there is a change in perspective, which there is not, as long as the camera position has not changed. All that the telephoto lens is doing is magnifying the image in front of the image-plane, and the aperture or sensor is simply cropping a portion of the total image. If you cropped the wide-angle image from the same viewpoint - as would happen if you used a smaller sensor - you would have the same telephoto image, except that it would have less resolution.

[@KevBinge]

Very true, and you would know! It is a misrepresentation to say that, as it’s really just an illusion. It’s a magnified image hitting the film back, or sensor now. Thanks for the clarification. I usually hit publish after taking forever to make a video and always realize I didn’t say something quite the right way lol!! That’s something you can immediately address in a live session or class.

[@deadpoolbr0]

is freaking awesome!

[@KevBinge]

Thanks Pavel!

[@DaRealGoosebumps]

thanks for making my request a reality :D

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😀😀. I hope it helps.

[@raphlaender]

THANKS!!

[@KevBinge]

You’re welcome 😀

[@squidcatbass]

nice tips! Thank you! I'm a total noob at camera movement and all these tips were helpful in opening my mind up to what is actually possible.

[@KevBinge]

Excellent! That’s the effect I was hoping for this video 😀. Thanks!

[@squidcatbass]

@@KevBinge I appreciate how concise everything is in this tutorial.