Creating a Planet for Cinema 4D Space Scene

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JOHN CARSTARPHEN: Hi. This is John Carstarphen for Expert Village. So now we have our ship, we have our asteroid field, let's add a planet. And we'll create a simple sphere, we'll resize this so that it's quite large, move it off to the side and what will have happened in this animation is we'll have the ship fly towards the camera, away from the sun, over the asteroid belt and past the planet. Now at this point I'm going to add a camera object by going to Object>Scene>Camera. And then we'll link to that object by going to Cameras>Link active object. And so we now are looking at the scene through the active object, which is the new camera that we just created. There's another camera in the scene called the Editor camera and let's switch to the Editor camera now. The Editor camera is very useful in Cinema 4D for helping you move objects around and place objects without disturbing the original shot that you have set up through your camera object. And this as we can look at we see the scene through the editor camera we can see that the camera we just created is a green object and it has two film spools on top, that's the Cinema 4D camera object, and you'll notice that you automatically have interactive orange handles on the camera object and let's go back to the camera object view by selecting Scene>Cameras>Camera and the orange interactive handles help us interactively control the focal length or they can interactively move the camera by moving the middle interactive handle, we can zoom and we can also move the camera by turning one of the interactive handles. So, let's reset our focal length to the default which is 36 mm.

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