BLENDER TUTORIAL - Camera Follow Path and the Switch Direction operator in Blender | Animation Quick Tip

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Hello everyone!

Here's a very short tutorial on how to solve an issue that may occur when you want to make your virtual camera follow a path in a scene in Blender.

You've created a path curve for your virtual camera, you've set the number of frames of the curve in the Path Animation section of its Object Data tab to cover all frames of the animation, you've positioned the camera at the first control point of the curve, and you've parented the camera to the curve using the Follow Path mode after pressing CTRL P...

You can realize right now that something is off because the dashed line indicating the parenting relationship between the objects connects the camera Control Point at the other end of the curve, not the one where the virtual camera is placed on...