Creating Overall Camera Movement in Animation
In this final tutorial, we will conclude our animation by implementing an overall camera movement that focuses on the basket. We will achieve this by utilizing our existing composition as a new element in another composition.
Renaming and Setting Up the Final Composition
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Renaming the Composition:
- Right-click on your current composition and select Rename, or press Enter or F2 to rename it to Animation.
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Creating a New Composition:
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Create a new composition and name it Final.
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To ensure this composition appears at the top of the Project Panel, add two underscores before and after the name (e.g., "Final).
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Opening the New Composition:
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Double-click on Final to open it in the viewer.
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Disable the display of transparent areas.
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Importing the Animation Layer:
- Drag the Animation composition into the Final composition as a new layer.
Animating the Sub-Composition
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Understanding the Sub-Composition:
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The Animation layer is treated as a single container, even though it comprises multiple layers.
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This layer is known as a Sub-Composition.
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Animating the Scale###:
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Press the S key to display the scale parameter of the Animation layer.
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Create the first keyframe at the beginning of the timeline.
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Move to the 5-second mark on the timeline.
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Scale the element to 1.15 which will automatically create a new keyframe.
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Creating a Perspective Effect:
- The global scale adjustment combines with the scale applied to the lights, generating a perspective effect known as parallax.
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Setting Animation Duration:
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Change the duration of the final animation to 5 seconds.
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Your animation is now complete! You can play it in a loop and fine-tune the details before exporting it as a video file.
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Additional Tip
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Creating a New Sub-Composition:
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You could have grouped all layers into a new Sub-Composition by selecting all layers within the Animation composition.
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In the Action menu, applicable to your selection, choose the option to combine these layers into a new Sub-Composition.
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We will explore this process in more detail in a future tutorial.
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Summary
In this section, we learned how to:
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Add a composition within another composition
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Animate a Sub-Composition
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Simulate a perspective effect