Blender Rigged Camera + Mist calculator

If you are unsatisfied with the default Blender camera, here is a rigged one.

You can easily spot it on a scene, aim it and animate it (aim, pan, dolly, truck) with its Global and Local parents.

Update: Added a Geometry node to calculate and show focus, near and far distance values to camera, useful to set up a Mist pass.

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Content:

A Blender file with a rigged camera:

A hierarchy with two parents (Global and Local) for animation constrains and a (aim\look at) constraint to orient it.

NEAR, FOCUS and FAR empties are here as well as helper objects, constrained to the AIM object.

A geometry node object (Geon_Show_Distances), child of the camera.

Plus a few camera visiblity options activated: safe areas, third ratios for composition.

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Version: Blender 3.2.2

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License: Free for any use, personal, education and commercial use.

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Sébastien Garnier, August 2022

Contact, feedback, requests: Anabase.studio@gmail.com

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Links:

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Website - Projects & texts: https://sebastiengarnier.net/en/home/