Tutorial: Quick Smooth Camera Movements in Blender 

Hello! To anyone getting stuck in this video in the future, maybe it can help to follow the tutorial in Blender version 2.81 and append the entire scene to a newer version of Blender. I made a tutorial about how to do this here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eVmZz_m2Hf0.html

The idea of simulating a cameraman's shadow is exactly the kind of ridiculous and ingenious idea that earns my subscription. You had me laughing, you crazy bastard.

In real-world people trying to avoid camera shakes and reflections of camera equipment...while 3D artists are going crazy trying to add imperfections to their artworks to make it feel more real... That last part of the video is just the craziest thing ever. I like it. Haha

I think on Blender 4.0 the menu "Key" -> "Sample Keyframes" has moved to "Key" -> "Density" -> "Bake Keyframes".

Two years ago I watched this video. It inspired me to start learning blender. I went through blender guru's donut tutorial, and now, two years later I am working on my first paid professional project! Thank you

You can use the mouse scroll wheel to increase the speed of the movement when in walk navigation mode. Thought this might help someone.

Shortcuts that can help: Left button: Confirm Right button: Cancel "E" button: Up "Q" button: Scroll down "Space" button: Teleports / focuses object "Scroll up or down" button: Speed ​​up or slow down camera "Shift" button: Accelerates the camera while it is pressed "Alt" button: Slows down camera while pressed "G or TAB" button: Activates gravity and deactivates "V" button: "Jump" Thanks for the valuable video and sorry for the bad English.

Haha, this tip in the very end is just hilarious! Real-life cameraoperators have a hard time figuring out how NOT to be visible in glossy car finish. And CGI-artists FAKE them in! Love it, man!

"So if you're still here, here's something that is so dumb it might actually work" 😂😂 love your content man keep up the good work

This is amazing. Quick note, make sure you hit "normalize keyframes" so that way you don't accidentally have a stray curve that you missed. My camera was super shakey since those weren't being smoothed.

VFX Artists: Here is how you remove the reflection of the cameraman if there is one visible. Iotsalote: Here is how you are able to get a reflection of a cameraman in a virtual environment.

Blender 3.3.1: Holding down Alt+O doesn't spam the action. Workaround is to Alt+O once, then Shift+R to redo the action, and that you can hold down to spam.

“Smooth keyframes” is now found under Key>Smooth>Smooth (Gaussian) (although Butterworm Smooth works better), and “Sample Keyframes” is found under Density>Bake Keyframes.

Great tip, thanks for sharing! (Love the little tip at the end :D ).

the little tutorial at the end lol, great video hope to see more like this in the future.

This person taught the basics of the camera is less than a minute, we need more people like this

Another cool thing I've found out- Since you have to pause for a second in the beginning of making the movement keyframes to press shift+F, wait maybe a second longer before you start moving. Then move around as normal, but don't stop the recording after the animation ends. Let it loop again, but stop making keyframes right before the first movement keyframe starts. It'll end up being a perfectly looped camera movement after its smoothed out :)

I love the ending 😂 “This is really stupid and you probably shouldn’t do it. Thanks for watching!” Thanks for making my day! I’m definitely gonna try this method now.

This is a really awesome technique! Thank you!

You are such a Great Explainer. Instead of watching 20 minutes of a tutorial and trying to keep a mental note of the important stuff, i just watch your videos, you are straight on the point and then the needed explanation no extra bs. Thats a dope skill

Love the speed of your tutorials, no fluff - great pace, good humour and lovely imagery. Thanks!

Oh come on! And I'm here editing individual curves since EVER! Very simple technique yet one of the most useful tutos I've watched since last year. Thanks for that 😅

Wow. Great job. You really Impressed me, even though I use 3ds Max. Keep staying creative.

This is one of the top 10 tip tuts for blender ever. THANK YOU! The Dart Vader animation is mindblowing. I wish it was longer. Do more of it!

I don't even have blender but i love watching these

this is phenomenal I just got into blender a few months ago and I've always wandered if there was a way to create camera movement without that hassle of creating paths all over. this method is WAY more organic. also you got me with the cameraman thing lol

This has to be one of the best Blender tutorials on RU-vid ever! Bruh the Cameraman at the end!!

This is an impatient designer's dream-workflow. Thank you so much for sharing!

Great tutorial, thanks👍👊

I had no idea this was even possible and now I'm so in awe of it's simplicity! Thanks for sharing!

Dude... HOW do you know all this amazing stuff?! You're like a Blender Alchemist or Worlock or something!! Thanks so much for this!!!

DAMN this man is a legend he is clear and gets STRAIGHT to the point and doesn't waste time and unnecessarily stretch the video forever

I literally don’t do 3D stuff but I love watching your videos, the way to teach doesn’t bores me at all and it’s really entertaining. Good stuff my guy!

most wanted tuts really helpful. The extra tip fires it up to the next level. Thanks. All your renders were on point.

Thank you for learning me how to move the camera in a way that makes sense!

This is what i needed! W,A,S,D Moving! Im kinda new to blender, all i have to do,i master this camera movement, animations (already did) but hardest part will be backgrounds and textures

I tought about the part you discuss in the very end throughout the video and seeing you come back to it almost killed me. Thanks, your approach to blender is admirable.

You're so amazing for sharing this clever method for free. Also the star wars scene is insane. Thank you!

I remember when I had to make path lmaoo

I love all your tutorials man. You should be so proud of yourself and the progress you made. I literally use your tutorials as a reference when learning, even from other tutorials. Cheers man 🎊

8:45 I am waiting for explosion!!

Amazing!

That was exactly what I was looking for, easy and powerful! Thank you so much indeed for posting it.

The relief I felt while watching this video is unquantifiable. I love you. I really do.

I played games my whole life, doing this is second nature xD

"So this is really stupid, and you probably shouldn't do it." Words to live by.

My mind is officially blown. I can get over how simple you've made this

Really amazing. I love Blender Community so much. Thank you all for sharing great staff

Great tuto ! I decreased the frame rate to 5 FPS during the real time movement, it helped me to have enough time to move my camera in a quiet way !

Great tip! I've used the Walk Mode for pre-vis, but never final camera animation - kind of one of those "duh" moments for me - lol. A few little additions - that may have been mentioned: Shift+~ (that's a "Tilde" - to the left of the number 1 Key) is the default hotkey for Walk Mode/Fly mode (in 2.8+ anyway). If you want to change the speed of the movement, you can scroll the mouse wheel to speed up/slow down. You can hold Shift to "run" or speed up camera movement momentarily. If you go to Preferences>Navigation>Fly and Walk>Walk there are two settings of interest - Walk Speed (also controlled by the mouse wheel) and Speed Factor - which is how much you will speed up when you hold Shift. Mouse Sensitivity can slow or speed up responsiveness ... but it seems easier to control when it's left at 1.0. Again, great tip - thanks for sharing it :)

so far the best tutorial for blender that I found! 10 mins full of transported information! great joB!

Incredible workflow development, thank you for sharing this! Also, your final steady-cam operator / realism booster tip is absolutely brilliant! 💎

camera man never dies, even in the scene with an expensive and great looking car

The finale bit cam guy bit made me LAUGH SO HARD! Thanks man, this is how you do anim tuts! SUB!

Big fan of your Tutorials! Thanks you so much!

This was I think the BEST blender tutorial I'v ever watched Thanks so Much

Quick tip: use Shift + ~ to enter Walk Mode, and do not assign the old one. There were changes in newer versions, so, Shift + F doesn't have this value no more.

maybe u should use decimente keyframes in the end to make them easy to adjust if you need,

Incredible outro, thank you

one of the best blender tutorial I've ever watched, very impressive !

For those asking about how he orbited around the default cube at 2:30 Just hold either the A or D key while slightly moving your mouse simultaneously. You’ll get your 360 degrees rotation.

Your mouse probably hate you after this.

Man this is just excellent. I was trying to achieve this first person look with "follow path" and "track to" contraints but it's so tedious and never looked natural. This method is the way to go

For some reason, I just absolutely loved this tutorial!!!!

88 for an Audi is perfectly normal (thinking about their logo).

Haha, I thought of adding a fake camera operator when you showed the audi render. Lol

Truly a god amongst your pixels.

Man, your animations are always so fantastic! Great trick and I can't wait to use it

The video i was searching yesterday. Law of attraction .

The walk navigation got ruined in the later versions :(

Wow! Just wow! Am speechless!

You're the master! For 3 years, It's always been a benefit for all people.

Thanks for the tutorial, only things is that my camera isn't getting any keyframes. This means that I will not see anything in the graph editor. Can you please help?

Congrats to everyone who has to use a trackpad! You won a tough time!

I wasn't expecting the last tip, but it's actually brilliant!!!

The last tip is just crazy cool! Super video!!!

When I press square my camera zooms in. Also, my graph editor is not showing keyframes.

Quick Tip!!! If anyone is experiencing that the spped of navigation is too fast/slow, change the scale of your scene. Make things bigger for slower speeds and vice versa. If anyone has any better suggestions, please mention it in the replies of this comment.😀

This is super cool. Thanks for sharing. It turns an hours long task of animating a camera into a few intuitive minutes.

That last detail is... EPIC, I've never thought about that

lotsalote Hi friend! I'm sure you have the solution for my issue : I trying many times to figure how to rotate around object in fly/walk mode (on the Z axis)! like you did while you go with the camera around the car. I press all the possible keys. please help me with that. thank you!

Can someone help me do this in Blender 4.1? How do i do this?

I love your approach of teaching, thanks

Best tutorial on this planet!

it may be because im using a newer version of blender and that im new, BUT, when i record the camera movement it dosent create keyframes. It just makes the animation and i therefore cant smoothe it OR delete the movement. As i said im new to blender, so its probably just me being a dumbass, but if you know the solution please let me know

For someone who's using the latest version of "Blender 3.0" and finding it difficult to relate with the Hotkeys W/Up ---- Move forward. S/Down----- Move backward. A/Left ------ Strafe left. D/Right ------ Strafe right. E ----- Move up - only available if Gravity off. Q ------ Move down - only available if Gravity off. Spacebar ----- Teleport location at the cross-hair (offset by the Camera Height value set in the Preferences). WheelUp/NumpadPlus ------ Increase the movement speed for this open session. WheelDown/NumpadMinus ------- Decrease the movement speed for this open session. Shift ------- Speed up the movement temporarily. Alt ------ Slow down the movement temporarily. V ----- Jump - only available if Gravity is on. Tab ------ Toggle Gravity.

Dude you just changed my life!! Thank you!!

Man, you are a magician. This is just incredible. Thank you so much for teaching us this golden knowledge.

I'll be using this. Amazing, thank you!

Dude. Not gunna lie, you just changed my life! Thank you!

DUDE! this is an awesome tutorial!

I’m starting to get into blender studying and learning the basics. You’re a great teacher man 🤙🏼🎬🔥 everyone else goes at max speed and I can’t even keep up. Thanks again man !

I'm actually so enjoying your work man! thank you so much !

Amazing, quick and precise tutorial!!

Those shortcuts for navigation had helped me so much over the years THANKS !

Thanks dude! This is great. Easy, simple and powerful.

Awesome! And the clips of your own work were so cool!

The last 30 seconds are Gold!

You are an absolute LEGEND! THANK YOU!

The most useful view-navigation i've ever used!! Thanks for sharing 🙏😊