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Backgrounds and cameras give your animations a

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much more professional and finished look.

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Time to give magnus a little bit

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of an environment and talk about cameras.

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Okay, so it starts out by going to

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file import and selecting frozen lake background.

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I guess we could stick them in the

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city, too, but let's put them on ice.

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magnus on ice.

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And we want to drag the background down to the timeline,

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and we want to be a little bit careful because it

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wants to snap to the top layer, and that's going to

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hide our puppet, so we actually have to drag it underneath.

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And now we see the puppet, but the new little

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sort of common issue that happens is that magnus is

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no longer armed, and the background is armed for recording,

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and it's not a puppet, so that's kind of weird.

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So you want to make sure that you

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switch that so that the red dot is

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set on magnus or whatever puppet you've got.

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And now we're pretty much ready to rock.

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Something you might want to play with now that

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you've got a background in your scene is a

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camera sort of system where you might have, like,

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an extreme close up and a wide shot.

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So how do we do that?

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Okay, if I go up to scene and I say

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new scene camera, I'm going to get a third layer,

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a camera one, added to my timeline, and what I

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can do is have different shots that are triggers.

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So with camera selected, you can see

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I've got the camera properties here.

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Pretty simple x, Y, and sort of A-Z-A zoom right.

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That we can play with.

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With this in mind, I would strongly recommend

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making your backgrounds a little bit bigger than

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the 1080 by 1920 resolution that is standard

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so that you can zoom way out.

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Okay, so let's say this is going to be our wide

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shot that we might want to toggle back and forth.

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Well, with camera selected, I can go to

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create triggerable shots and over my triggers.

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All it's looking for is a keyboard key.

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In this case, I'm going to say that's one. Okay.

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Now, if I wanted a zoom, I could push

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in pretty far and maybe make him go off

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to the right, because maybe it's an explainer video

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and there's content that's going to come up here.

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All right.

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So I could make another triggerable shot,

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and I could call that trigger two. Okay.

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Now, what's really great is whenever I press

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those keys, you can see that I can

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now toggle between those different cameras.

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So that's is how we set

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up backgrounds and cameras in character. animator.