From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 07 Parenting
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Setting up - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 07 Parenting
Setting up
Earlier in this lesson when we had you build this RoboTV composition we gave you a couple of movies to use as your background. We gave you this movie which had a nice generic soft curtain of light sort of feel and we used this as a lighting effect, and we used this movie which had a very blocky sort of pattern meant to mimic some of the square blocky pattern that we saw in the other elements in RoboTV. Well, these were actually created using a plug-in in After Effects known as Fractal Noise. And Fractal Noise is a good utilitarian plug-in to use. Therefore, I am going to show you how we created these two backgrounds using the Fractal Noise effect. You don't need any source files to do this, because you are just going to use solids and plug-ins already inside After Effects. The first thing I'm going to do is create a new composition and you have a few choices as to what size you make this composition. You could make it the same size as your final overall composition. In this case, we…
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