by EdenWeby 3D·Motion Graphics
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Quake Motion Camera earns its place for turning handheld camera realism into a procedural, mostly one-click job — the random generators and custom motion tools cover a wide range of movement without touching motion tracking or f-curves.
Quake Motion Camera is a Blender addon from EdenWeby 3D for adding realistic handheld camera motion and shake to your shots. It works procedurally, so movement is generated for you rather than built from motion tracking or manual f-curves, and most actions run from a single button with a few optional tweaks.
The addon adds extra camera presets to the Object > Add > Camera menu, including Pan for flight shots, Racing for fast vehicle movement, Tilt, HandHeld for smartphone-style vibration, and Head for a first-person feel. Its work is split across three panels — Quake Camera Shake, Quake Camera Tools and Quake Motion Camera — reachable from the left-side Quake tab or the Camera properties tab. Location and Rotation options move or rotate the camera randomly, and shake presets range across Stable, Mild, Extreme and Chaos.
Version 1.5 of the Ultimate Version adds a random motion generator with over 500 styles plus the ability to create custom shakes and motion. The package includes HTML documentation and in-built tooltips.
Quake Motion Camera is best for blender artists who want handheld, shaky or motion-driven camera work for angle shots without setting up motion tracking or editing f-curves.
Quake Motion Camera is completely free to download and use.
Quake Motion Camera supports Blender from 2.79 up to the latest release, and its Ultimate Version adds support for Blender 2.93. When installing on newer Blender builds, use the addon zip inside the 2.9 folder rather than the 2.8 one. One caveat worth noting: the pan camera works only in Blender 2.80 to 2.83, and an update covering 2.90 was not yet available at the time this was described. For everything else, the addon is designed to run across that full version range.
Quake Motion Camera installs from a zip like most Blender addons. After downloading, extract the package, then look inside for the addon zip in the version folder that matches your Blender build, for example quake motion camera/addon/2.8/ for Blender 2.8 or the 2.9 folder for newer versions. That inner zip is the file you add through Blender's addon installer. The package also comes with HTML documentation and in-built tooltips, so you have reference material on hand while setting things up.
Quake Motion Camera is listed as free in this catalog. Licensing and download terms can change, and the addon has a separate Ultimate Version with additional capabilities, so check the developer's page for the current details before downloading. The developer notes that buying the plugin helps support continued development and future updates. For the most accurate and up-to-date information on how it's distributed and which version you'll receive, the developer's page is the place to confirm.
Quake Motion Camera adds three panels — Quake Camera Shake, Quake Camera Tools and Quake Motion Camera. You can find them in the UI on the left-side tab labelled 'Quake' or in the Camera properties tab. The Camera Shake panel adds a shake at a frame you choose with a default duration of 20 frames, while the Motion Camera panel adds a continuous shake from the start frame to the end frame. Its Vibration property adds noise to the motion, which the developer suggests for racing or explosion shots.
Quake Motion Camera includes Camera Tools for converting camera movements into keyframes, which lets you export the motion to other software or for gaming. The same panel offers a track-object tool for parenting the camera to a selected object and a camera switcher for moving between cameras in an animation with a single click. The motion itself is procedural, generated by the addon rather than built from manual f-curves or motion tracking, so the keyframe conversion is what makes the result portable.
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