My First Incarnation

This is a video of the first incarnation of my Masters project, which at the time was just my final project for my animation course. At this stage I had the camera follow a buggy which was moving on an obstacle course. I had both the X and Z direction tracking of the subject as this point using the PD servo:

F = K(P_d-P_a) + B(0-V_a)

P_d is desired position, the subject's current position with an offset
P_a is the camera carts current position
V_a is the camera carts current velocity

Here are the some videos of my animation project:

Naive camera with simple position copying with an offset:

Physics based (PD Servo) Camera with no user input:

Physics based Camera with camera rotation only:

Physics based Camera with user input for camera boom pivoting: