Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release), First Edition

The Balloon composition includes layers for the canvas colors, the balloon itself, and the character’s eyes, head, forearm, and ...

With the Pan Behind tool, you can move the anchor point without moving the entire layer in the Composition window. 7. Move the a ...

create that parenting relationship next. 3. In the Parent column for the Eyes layer, choose 6. Head from the pop-up menu. The fo ...

As you’ve seen in previous lessons, sometimes it’s easier to work with a set of layers. Precomposing layers moves them to a new ...

Increasing the width of the composition and then moving the canvas to the far left side will give you room to animate the canvas ...

using position and rotation keyframes. Copying layers into a composition You’ve worked with the balloon, character, and fire lay ...

The balloon and all of its child layers scale to 60%. 4. Choose 12.5% from the Magnification Ratio pop-up menu in the Compositio ...

3. Go to 6:16. 4. Shift the balloon’s rotation the other direction. (We used 9.9 degrees.) 5. Move the balloon to the left side ...

Using Bezier handles to smooth a motion path The basic path is in place, but you can smooth it out a bit. Each keyframe includes ...

6. Go to 3:17, the point at which the character will tug the cord to ignite the burner. 7. Deselect the layers. 8. Change the Ro ...

14. Deselect both layers, and then manually preview from 3:00 to 5:07 to see the character tug the cord. You may need to zoom ou ...

Command+C (macOS) to copy them. 13. Go to 7:10, and press Ctrl+V (Windows) or Command+V (macOS) to paste them. 14. Press R to hi ...

4. Go to 7:10. 5. Press the left bracket key ([) on your keyboard to move the In point of the duplicate Fire.mov layer to 7:10. ...

About solid-color layers Use solid layers to color a background or to create simple graphic images. You can create solid images ...

Applying the effects You’re ready to apply the effects to the solid layer. The Fractal Noise effect will create the gust of wind ...

5. Hide the Fractal Noise properties in the Effect Controls panel. 6. In the Effects & Presets panel, search for the Directi ...

14. Go to 8:20, and change the opacity to 35 %. 15. Go to 10:20, and change the opacity to 0 %. 16. Press T to hide the Opacity ...

Yellow –103.) 9. Go to 10:12. 10. Move all the canvas layers off the screen to the right. Vary their motion paths to make them m ...

6. Go to 9:16. 7. Change the Wave Height value to 90 and the Wave Width value to 478. Trimming a layer You don’t need the Wave W ...

4. Go to 16:00, and drag the Sky layer down and to the left until the wrapped clouds are in the center of the frame. (Our values ...