Animating the After Effects camera

In today’s lesson, we learnt about how to use the after-effects camera and many different camera movements. I got my fantasy matte painting and added a camera forward dolly to it. I made the layers 3d and added a camera (layer – new – camera – one node) I changed the view to custom view 1 and moved the layers forward or backwards I animated the camera by placing a keyframe on position and move it forward on the Z-axis I made a second camera movement with another camera dolly but backwards and a camera roll to the right I […]

Lens Flare and God Rays

In today’s lesson, we added lens flare and god rays to an image in photoshop Lens flare: God rays: Lens Flare: filter – render – lens flare God rays: select – colour range – highlights – adjust fuzziness and range – ctrl j to duplicate layer – filter – blur – radial blur – zoom – draft – adjust it – done This will be useful for my fantasy brief because it could help me make a cinematic title sequence. But I have no plans for a title sequence as I have chosen to do an animation. However, if I […]