Subtitles of the Movie

To finish off our animation let's unlock our sun and we're going to right-click on the sun layer, we're going to go to effect and we're going to choose Stylize and then Glow. Now you can see that we have a glow already but this is not the kind of glow I want to put on the sun. So whenever you put a glow on something you'll notice that you have glow based on. Well currently its set to Color Channels, I don't want to use that. I want to use the Alpha for the glow and now the glow is going to be out here and look really awesome while we increase the Radius. So I'm going to really go crazy with this and give it a very, very powerful glow on the outside. Likewise, we can bump up the intensity if we want as well. I mean after all it is the sun. Alright so that looks pretty good. Now one more thing I want to do is I'm going to go all the way out to the beginning of the animation and I'm going to unlock the background. I think it will be kind of cool to have that spinning just ever so slowly. So I'm going to hit R on the keyboard to bring out the Rotation Property and I'm going to put on the, let's think here, think X is going to be the value we want. Let's go ahead and experiment, no we don't want X. We don't want Y, I think we want Z. See the funny thing is when you get into 3D everything changes and since I'm so used to using other 3D software its kind of the same thing in this application but not quite. So what I would think as a Y would be up and down in other software literally just spins it around the Y axis. So it looks at this and it will rotate around that, likewise on X. It looks at the Red one and it will flip. So Z will spin it. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to do just a little tiny bit of that. First of all let me go ahead and reset the X to 0 and I'm going to reset everything to 0 because I just want a little tiny bit on the Z. So I'm going to hit the Stopwatch and go all the way to the end and add just a slight amount of rotation, like that, just to give it just a little bit more life. Now it's barely noticeable but in the long run it just adds a little bit more realism to the animation. And there we go that is how you can take 2D images, clean them up in Photoshop from a 3D application like Maya and then bring them into After Effects and animate a camera going through them so that it looks like we still in a 3D application. So I hope you enjoyed this project and you'll find some use for it when you want to do the same thing with other comps. For example you might want to have a camera going through buildings or a character running through buildings or you're going around boulders or through mountains. So once again hope you enjoyed that.