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

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Transitioning to red sky

Transitioning to red sky

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

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Transitioning to red sky

- [Instructor] To finish this shot, I want to create a transition from the original bright sky to these red clouds that we have now. And the Circle Effect with it's special blending mode will help us to achieve it. Here, let me show you how this works. So I'll pause the playback, I'll go to the beginning and select the clouds layer, layer number six here, and then I'll go to Effect, Generate and apply the Circle Effect. Now by default, this is going to generate a circle on screen, but we are going to use it as a transition. And we can do it thanks to this special blending mode that it has here, which is Stencil Alpha. And this Stencil Alpha will behave almost like a cookie cutter. So I'm going to raise the radius here, and you can see that it is cutting the image using the Circle Effect. So I'll open up the Feather property and raise it to let's say 400 just so we'll have a smooth transition. And then I'll change…

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