ABSTRACT
This chapter covers the steps necessary to create virtual cameras that are fully interactive and autonomous. It starts with virtual cameras that share the same attributes and behaviors that movie cameras possess. The chapter explores relationships between virtual cameras and the environment of a scene. It shows how creating an environment for a scene can be a crucial element that affects the scripting of virtual cameras. The chapter discusses several psychological issues related to the need to stabilize the image inside a frame and to create continuity between frames seen by the viewer. Virtual cameras such as the cocktail camera can be interactive or autonomous and self-controlled with the ability to shoot and edit content without requiring the viewer’s input. The desire to freely film events while wandering through a space has generated many projects with handheld cameras. Behaviors designed to stabilize a virtual camera also set out to accommodate technical and psychological parameters.
