From the course: Learning Graphic Novel Storyboarding
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Panning - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Learning Graphic Novel Storyboarding
Panning
- [Instructor] We've all seen cameras pan in movies before, whether we took note of it or even knew what it was called or not. It's almost always happening. Panning is the action of the camera just moving slowly across a scene, or sometimes it's happening even faster in something like an action scene. Panning happens in comics, too, but again it's something you're less aware of as a reader, and maybe more aware of if you're the one actually drawing it. The idea is similar to what we discussed with zooming. You want to move the viewer through the scene. You can see here in these top panels we have a cannon that's firing this ball of scrap metal, and the camera actually follows it into panel two, and then further into panel three as it latches onto the spider-cat's leg, taking us all the way from left to right, but using multiple panels to do so. Here in this panel we have a case of panning happening maybe without us even thinking about it. It's done differently than the previous…
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