From the course: Creating a Mograph Title Sequence: 2 Animating in After Effects

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Adding atmosphere

Adding atmosphere

From the course: Creating a Mograph Title Sequence: 2 Animating in After Effects

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Adding atmosphere

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- Now I like to surround this planet with a thin atmosphere and animated as time goes by to illustrate the life and death of Venus. So I'll pose the playback I'll select the orb layer and then go to the effect menu and under stylize I'll apply the glow effect. I'm going to base the glow on the alpha channel, and I'll also composite the original on top so the atmosphere will be behind the planet. Next I'll change color A and B starting by sampling orange color from the planet itself maybe a little bit more orange so I'll click on it and just raise each saturation and then I'll click on color B and choose a dark red color and click okay. Next I'll change the glow radius to something big like 500 at the beginning and then reduce the glowing intensity to 0.7. Then I want to animate those two values. So I'll create key frames for both of them the radius and the intensity and move to where the title starts which is 35 seconds…

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