Easy Camera Positioning

Overview

A quick little tip I found for those who struggle with positioning the camera.

The Guide Part

For those who are new-ish to blender or those who rotate their cameras manually.

1) Start up a new file

2) Get rid of the cube and create a plain axis

3) Select the camera, then holding shift select the axis

4) Press Ctrl + T and Track to constraint

5) Tadaa, your camera will now follow the axis

6) optionally you can set this to be default for the startup save file (it’s what I did)

I use this setup all the time and its great for animating flybys and smooth motion n stuff
(You could probably do the same thing for a sun or area lamp now that I think of it.)

Enjoy