animation tool
FollowCam
FollowCam (AS_FollowCam) by AnimStarter is a Maya script that keeps your camera on your character. Select a controller, hit create, and you get a new camera constrained to it that copies your viewport camera's lens settings. Choose how it follows, flip between cameras with one click, and stop tumbling the viewport mid-shot. For animators working on fast action, body mechanics and creature shots.
£3.49one-time, perpetual licence
- 30 Jul 2026
- Last updated
- 5 May 2026
- Released
- Licence
- Perpetual
- File size
- 188.8 KB
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What it does
Three camera problems FollowCam takes off your plate
The problem
Your character walks out of frame
One big step and you are tumbling the viewport to catch up. FollowCam builds a camera constrained to the controller you pick, so the character stays in shot.
The problem
A new camera loses your framing
Focal length, aperture, depth of field and clipping planes are copied from your current viewport camera, so the follow cam looks the same as the view you dialled in.
The problem
Swapping views breaks your flow
A toggle UI flips between your original camera for the wide shot and the follow cam for detail, in one click. It can also switch to the new camera as soon as it is created.
Inside the tool
Inside FollowCam
Built by an animator who got tired of fighting the viewport on body mechanics, creature work and complex action shots. You get one create button and a choice of how the camera follows. Lock it fully for a run cycle where the camera glides alongside the body, or track rotation only for a vehicle shot that just needs to face the right way.
CREATE
Camera from a controller
Select a control, hit create, and a custom camera is constrained to it.
LENS
Inherits your viewport camera
Copies focal length, aperture, depth of field and clipping planes.
FOLLOW
Translate and rotate
Fully locked, following both position and rotation.
FOLLOW
Position only
The camera travels with the character without turning.
FOLLOW
Rotation only
Tracks rotation, for shots that only need to face the right direction.
TOGGLE
One-click camera switch
Flip between your original camera and the follow cam.
TOGGLE
Auto switch on create
Optionally jump into the new camera the moment it is built.
Getting set up
Install in under a minute
- 1
Drop the installer into Maya
Drag INSTALL_AS_FollowCam.mel into your Maya viewport.
- 2
Restart Maya
Close and reopen Maya so the shelf loads.
- 3
Open the AnimStarter shelf
FollowCam is sitting on the AnimStarter shelf, ready to go.
Will it run for you
Compatibility
- Software
- Autodesk Maya
- Install
- INSTALL_AS_FollowCam.mel
- Shelf
- AnimStarter shelf
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