Hi, I am trying to make my camera shake from heavy foot step and I would like to know if there was a way of doing it with a tool or plugin instead of doing it with keyframe.

thx in advance

Assgin a Noise controller to the camera. You may want to add it to a List Controller, or link the camera to a helper, so you can still animate camera moves while it shakes.

Plus with a list controller you can mix down the shake effect with the motion for the effect you want.

Samab 22 July 2010 04:22 AM

Assgin a Noise controller to the camera. You may want to add it to a List Controller, or link the camera to a helper, so you can still animate camera moves while it shakes.

Or do it in post.

3DS Max 6 to 2009, Maya 2010
Windows XP Pro x64 SP2
NVIDIA Quadro 1700, Quad Core 2.67GHz, 4Gb RAM
http://www.beanboxanimation.co.uk

if i’m doing the camera shake in max, i prefer to use a noise controller and a target camera. i put the noise controller on both the target and on the camera. to keep the both the camera and target as animatable (real word?) i put each in a point helper and use the helpers for key-framing the animation. occasionally i will put an attribute holder on the helper with custom attributes wired to the noise controllers, that way everything is accessible from the modify panel.

- Eric

You can download this script for doing camera shake if you want from my website.

Here is a video explaining how it works:

http://www.joegunn3d.com/Tuts/ShakyCam.htm

Hope this helps

max2008-11

If you have the footsteps recorded as a WAV or AVI you can add a List controller then an Audio Controller(s) for the direction(s) of the shake.

Every time you hear a footstep, the camera’s position will respond.

Tim Wilbers [FA]

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Visual Arts
University of Dayton
http://www.udayton.edu/
3ds Max: 7.5, 8, 9, 2008, 2009, 2010