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MARCH 24, 2004 Getting Amorphous in Amorphium 3
Final adjustments But what I really want to do is to get inside this object and render it from that position. So, in order to do this, I'll choose the Camera Dolly tool from the tool palette in the Composer workspace.  [an error occurred while processing this directive] Then I'll just slide the camera right in. Once I'm there, I'll also adjust the angle of the camera to get the view I want. And here's what I have so far. The brighter of these two images has a lower transparency value, as discussed in the previous section.  All that's left to do now is to play around with the lighting and camera until I get some results I like. Move the camera around within your object to get a view you like, and also try playing with the camera's field of view. You can do this by right-clicking the camera in the timeline window and adjusting the field of view (FOV) in the camera's Properties palette. The higher the number, the more stretched out your image will look as the camera tries to take in more and more of its surroundings.  And here are some examples, all using the single cube created for this tutorial, but with varied camera angles and transparency settings.  Next time around we'll discuss how to animate this image for a looping motion background. We'll also expand our series to get into still and motion textures for our object and working with multiple objects and different object types. If you have any questions, drop me a line or visit me in one of the forums listed below. Contact the author: Dave Nagel is the editor and producer of Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; host of several World Wide User Groups, including Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop, Apple DVD Studio Pro, Mac OS, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Corel Painter, Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; and executive producer of the Digital Media Net family of publications. You can reach him at dnagel@digitalmedianet.com. Prev 1 2 3 4 Related sites: Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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