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Dynamic ShotMaker
PROCEDURAL CAMERA⏮ ◀ ▶ ⏭

Camera rigs that follow and frame your subject

Dynamic ShotMaker adds eight camera rigs to Blender. Give a camera a Move Target and an Aim Target and it moves, frames and focuses on its own. Shake, Feel presets, a shot timeline and render tools are included.

Blender 4.5 LTS and 5.x

DS_Camera  Shot 1-1  Start 1  Frame 61  End 120

▶ Orbit rig  ·  Move Target Suzanne.001Visualizer + PiP

SEQUENCE · TAP A SHOT TO JUMP

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▶ Shot 1-1  SETUP120f

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A shot in three clicks

No bones to wire, no curves to fight.

◆ KEY 01

Add camera from view

Frame it in the viewport and click once. One-click rig setup.

◆ KEY 02

Give it targets

A Move Target to follow and an Aim Target to look at: any object, armature or bone.

◆ KEY 03

Press play

The camera moves, frames and focuses on its own.

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▶ Shot 2-1  MOVE120f

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Eight rigs. Real camera moves.

Pick a rig to see it move.

◆ Eight move types, each with its own tunables.

◆ Natural camera lag mimics a camera operator.

◆ Target blending blends from one target to another.

◆ Everything that moves can be keyframed.

◆ Lightweight: built on native Blender constraints.

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▶ Shot 3-1  FRAME120f

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Frame it. Focus it.

DS_Camera  Shot 3-1  Start 241  Frame 301  End 360

▶ Camera viewDepth of field

◆ Aim composition rules: lock the target in any quadrant.

◆ Framing zone lets the subject drive the camera.

◆ Auto zoom keeps subjects in frame, or set a min/max comfort zone.

◆ Screen-based framing on any object, armature or bone.

◆ Raycast depth of field: rays hit the geometry in frame. No guesswork.

◆ Focus table and rack focus blend between multiple targets.

◆ DoF visualizer shows the focus distance so you can offset it.

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▶ Shot 4-1  FEEL120f

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Feel presets: quick recipes

◆ One click sets the rig type, Move and Aim on/off, and the numeric rig settings.

◆ Saved to disk in Blender’s user config: available in every .blend and kept through add-on updates.

◆ Your scene stays yours. Presets never store scene objects such as targets, rail curves or cable anchors.

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▶ Shot 5-1  SHAKE120f

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Six-axis shake you can see

Shake  Shot 5-1  Start 481  Frame 541  End 600

▶ Shake scopeyaw · pitch · roll · locX · locZ

◆ Six-axis camera shake with a visualizer in the viewport.

◆ Impulse-based shake: time hits to explosions, with a natural decay.

◆ Lens breathing tied to shake, so a shaky shot gets an imperfect lens too.

◆ Shake presets you can save and export.

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▶ Shot 6-1  EDIT120f

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Cut your film inside Blender

A sequencer timeline to cut, duplicate and arrange a sequence of cameras, with a colour row per camera and keyframes under every shot.

Timeline  Shot 6-1  Start 601  Frame 661  End 720

▶ Camera rows · shot strips · keyframe lanes

◆ Shot, Cut, Remove, Auto-switch in the Timeline header.

◆ Hotkeys on strips: K cut, Shift+D duplicate, M enable, X remove.

◆ Drag and trim with snapping to neighbouring shots.

◆ Keyframe lanes with curve ramps under the shots.

◆ Shot naming: custom, or by order and cut (1-1, 2-1).

◆ Play Sequence plays every shot in order.

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▶ Shot 7-1  PREVIEW120f

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See it. Deliver it.

PiP  Shot 7-1  Start 721  Frame 781  End 840

▶ Camera previewDS_Camera

◆ Picture-in-picture preview follows your render format, vertical included.

Cameras  Shot 7-1  Start 721  Frame 781  End 840

▶ Camera manager

◆ Camera manager to organize and rename cameras.

◆ Render suite shows how much render time is left. Blender doesn’t; DSM does.

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▶ Shot 8-1  SUPPORT120f

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Built-in support tools

◆ Rig health check verifies and cleans rigs in older files.

◆ Smoke test checks the add-on on your machine.

◆ Copy Debug Report captures what’s needed to fix a problem; send it through the message link on this page.

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Dynamic ShotMaker

PROCEDURAL CAMERA

Rigs, framing, focus, shake, shot timeline and render tools. Blender 4.5 LTS and 5.x.

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