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Place the character into an animated scene

Place the character into an animated scene - After Effects Tutorial

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Place the character into an animated scene

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- [Instructor] So we've created our little looping animation of our gardener walking. I've added a bit of color to him in this one as well. What I want to do now is I want to drop him into this scene here of a garden that I've created using images from the British library collection of images. If I just hit edit original, jump over to Photoshop, you'll see that I've made the edges loopable by using the offset filter. And you'll see that it doesn't matter how much I offset it now, it's just going to keep looping. So, in After Effects, I've added the animatable version of the offset filter, and I've keyframed that, and I've done that by a percentage of the composition. You'll see that, if I double-click this keyframe here, and change the measurements to percentage of composition, you'll see this one's moved by 350%. If you want it to be loopable, always go in 100% increments of the composition when you're using the offset filter. And each one gets slightly faster as it gets closer to…

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