Subtitles of the Movie

Now that we have some information as far as rotation animated inside of our composite, let's animate some of the layer properties of let's say the nebula so that it pulsates a little bit and it gets dimmer. So I'm going to once again turn on Animate. I'm going to go to the Surface Tab of the nebula layer and I'm going to drop the opacity down to about 20 percent and I'll scrub my Timeline and I'll increase the opacity and I'll scrub a little further and I'll drop it down. One thing you may notice when I'm animating is that I don't really worry too much about exactly what frame I'm on many times. I like to animate based on how it feels and how it looks in the composite itself. I'm going to do the same thing with the other layer. I'm going to go to the first frame and I'm going to drop it's opacity all the way down. I'm going to animate and I want this one to come in a little bit in a staccato fashion. I don't want it to really be the same sequence. So I want this to animate, well, actually a little slower. I don't want staccato. I think I'm just going to go a little slower than that. Staccato would mean that I'm going kind of fast with the animation and it would pulse quite a bit. So we'll just go a little slower. And we should have a nice effect when I turn Animate off now. But before we prove you this, let's also rotate the stars so they're going in a different direction than the galaxy itself. So let's turn Animate on, grab your star field layer and before we do that, wait a minute. Let's turn Animate off and scale that up quite a bit. Like so. So we can actually rotate it safely without having to see the edges of the layer. And now we'll turn Animate on again. And by the way, I'm hoping your paying attention to when to turn this on and off. Always turn it off when you want to make a change to something. And turn it back on when you're ready to animate. Because if it's on when you animate, then it's going to pick up your changes as well. So now let's rotate the star field very gradually along the Z axis and not too much. I'm going to enter, I'm just going to double click in this field here, bring out the calculator, and I'll clear that and I'll enter ten. Just give us a little bit of rotation. Turn Animate off and I'll press Play to see how our final animation looks. So we have the stars moving, we have the galaxy spinning and we have the nebula throbbing and pulsating so that they show light and then they dim away and they come back to give us a little motion inside of our animation. And as soon as it renders into RAM, we should be able to get a more accurate sense of how it's going to look when it's finished. Let's go ahead and press Play again and now we have our galaxy.