1. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater Alice Workshop More Precise Positioning Camera Marker One-shot methods Saving a world

2. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater Relative Position  In the preview, a table was located in front of garfield and odie.  Jon was off-camera (to the right, as you view the scene)

3. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater Relative positioning  Positioning objects relative to one another often involves  Moving the camera to get a close-up view  Precise positioning (often times, more precise than can be accomplished using a mouse)

4. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater Think ahead!  Relative positioning often requires moving the camera… but moving the camera will change the opening camera position in the initial scene setup.  Solution:  Place a marker at the camera’s opening location… will allow you to return the camera to the opening position, as needed.

5. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater More controls in scene editor  In the scene editor, click on the More controls button

6. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater Dropping a dummy marker  Click on the Drop Dummy at Camera button.

7. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater Rename Dummy Marker  In the Object Tree, right-click on “”dummy”and rename it to a more meaningful name, such as originalPosition (not required, but very useful!)

8. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater Positioning (in front of)  Add a table and position in front of garfield and odie.  Notice that it is difficult to know the relative position… is the table close enough?

9. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater One-shot actions  One technique for viewing the relative positioning of objects is to the camera’s “get a good look at” method as a one- shot  Method – an action  One-shot – happens one time only, as the scene is being setup

10. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater Using a one-shot  Use a one-shot to get a close-up view of the table

11. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater Did it work?  Is the table close enough… or too close?

12. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater Adjust position  As needed, adjust position of table, garfield, and odie.

13. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater Reset camera position  To return the camera to its original position  Pull-down the menu for the move camera to dummy button and select the originalPosition marker.

14. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater Alternate technique  Use camera navigation arrows to move the camera in for a close-up view

15. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater Reset camera position  To return the camera to its original position  Pull-down the menu for the move camera to dummy button and select the originalPosition marker.

16. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater Your turn  Use a one-shot method to have  garfield turn to face the camera.  odie turn to face garfield.

17. Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Don Slater Save  Be sure to save the world every half-hour, or so…