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Create a water surface: Part 2

Create a water surface: Part 2

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Create a water surface: Part 2

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- [Narrator] This is part two of the Creating a Water Surface Texture. And we're continuing from the previous lesson where we nested the fractal for water composition into the water composition. So now we're gonna continue by creating some perspective for our fractal noise. So what we're gonna do is come down to the timeline panel, let's select the composition, fractal for water, and let's come over here and activate this option here which converts this into a 3D layer. So there's this little cube icon showing up here being activated will then give us the ability to come up to the Tools, we'll click on this fourth tool here, the rotation tool and then be able to rotate this particular layer in 3D space. So in order to see what's going on here, I'm just gonna zoom up, and a shortcut for zooming up inside of After Effects is you can hit the greater than sign or the period to increase the magnification or you can press the comma or the less than sign to decrease. So I'm gonna come up…

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