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Offset effect for a repeating background loop

Offset effect for a repeating background loop - After Effects Tutorial

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Offset effect for a repeating background loop

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- Here in Chapter Five, 02 Offset Effect Loop, I've got an animation of a falling coffee bean using just a few key frames and the wiggle expression in front of a water color sky which I'd really like to animate moving upwards to really sell that look of the falling coffee bean. So, let's go over a simple method using the offset effect to create a continuous loop of a background image in sort of an old school cartoony Scooby Doo style. I wanna pause playback briefly and I wanna take a look at this background a little bit larger so I'm gonna hit Command Minus. And then hold down the Space Bar and kind of use the Grab tool to move around just so I can see this background and see how large it is. So, if I click and drag on it, let's go ahead Command Plus to move in just a little bit more. You can see that it's much larger than the composition size and I can move it and scroll it up and down, but just one motion of this will not be enough to sell that look. Luckily I made the bottom of…

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