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The 5-step quick composite for a unified look

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The 5-step quick composite for a unified look

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- [Instructor] I'm here in Chapter 5.01: The 5 Step Quick Composite, and I am previewing a little animation I've created of a monstrous peanut chomping down squirting out peanuts from his mouth every time he bites because it breaks bits of peanuts from his mouth, and it's scary and spooky, but it looks a little bit flat in my mind. You see, as a motion designer and animator, what you're actually doing is compositing. It's true, every step of the way you are a compositer. Compositing is just the mixing of any number of elements to create a single whole. Like here in my animation I have my hand drawn monster peanut printed on a crumply paper texture. Now it's chomping out bits of actual, photographic peanuts, and behind it are shape layers of solid stars moving around and wiggling a bit. Now there's also the text layer up top, and finally I have this background with a nice little varying peanut pattern. So it looks okay, but I want to take all these composited elements that have a…

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