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Henk Venter
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Henk Venter is currently running his own 3D Art Production Studio. He was the Principal Character Artist at THQ Studio Australia and Senior Character Artist at Electronic Arts in Montreal, Canada. In the UK he worked for Microsoft's Studio Rare, Sumo Digital, and Eurocom Entertainment.
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Wilhelm Ogterop
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Wilhelm Ogterop worked in bigger games studios in the UK as Character Animator and later Lead Animator on several projects. He was also part of ingame real-time cinematics teams, motion capture direction, cleanup, and implementation. Studios he worked for on-site, as well as a contractor, include Raven Software, Deep Silver, Travelers Tales Fusion, Eurocom Entertainment Software, Instinct Games, Entrada Interactive, and Headfirst Productions.
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Creating cameras and animating them

As far as the cameras are concerned, I will leave it up to you. Do whatever you want with them. However, if you want an example, you can study what I did in the FinalScene_tutor level sequence (included with this chapter's resource UE project).

But you probably want to know how to work with cameras in Sequencer in the first place. Here's how to set up multiple cameras and then create camera cuts between them in Sequencer. These are just the basics, but you can do most things you would ever want to do with cinematic cameras with these simple tools. There's much more that you can do with a camera and shots in Sequencer, but that is beyond the scope of this book.

To create a camera and animate it, please execute the following steps:

  1. First, we need to add a Camera Cut Track to our sequence to store and manage our cameras and camera cuts. You do this by clicking + TRACK at the top of the TRACK window and then selecting Camera...
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Henk Venter

Henk Venter is currently running his own 3D Art Production Studio. He was the Principal Character Artist at THQ Studio Australia and Senior Character Artist at Electronic Arts in Montreal, Canada. In the UK he worked for Microsoft's Studio Rare, Sumo Digital, and Eurocom Entertainment.
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Wilhelm Ogterop

Wilhelm Ogterop worked in bigger games studios in the UK as Character Animator and later Lead Animator on several projects. He was also part of ingame real-time cinematics teams, motion capture direction, cleanup, and implementation. Studios he worked for on-site, as well as a contractor, include Raven Software, Deep Silver, Travelers Tales Fusion, Eurocom Entertainment Software, Instinct Games, Entrada Interactive, and Headfirst Productions.
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