From the course: Creating a Mograph Title Sequence: 2 Animating in After Effects
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Transitioning to red sky
From the course: Creating a Mograph Title Sequence: 2 Animating in After Effects
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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Initial color correction6m 34s
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Removing unwanted content6m 21s
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Fixing the sky3m 30s
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Improving the matte3m 14s
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Creating a water displacement4m 35s
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Extending and tracking6m 35s
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Creating a matte with Colorama4m 13s
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Transitioning to red sky5m 14s
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Creating a matte with Auto-trace4m 31s
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Matching the colors and motion2m 11s
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Replacing the comps3m 9s
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Adding an overall look2m 57s
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