Building Your Project - The Focal Easy Guide to After Effects - page 121

For the CH element layers, go to the Audio Track
Marker nearest 4:12 and create Keyframes for
Position, Scale, and Rotate - jump back 36 frames
and set the coordinate values at right.

It's up to you whether or not to apply Keyframe
Interpolation (Ease In) to the last Keyframes of each
Transform or to alter the Position Keyframes' Spatial Interpolation to Bezier (to
smooth the motion into the frame). But either way, the animation should be
complete. It only needs a few little nuances to wrap it up: Shadows.

3D Shadows

Advanced features of After Effects include 3D Cameras and Lighting - but you
don't always need to use these capabilities. You can just as easily add a shadow
filter of some kind to recreate the same look as the more complicated real light-
cast shadow.

1

Select and duplicate both Elements build Loop Precomps.

2

Drag both copies down the Timeline stack, place them above Lines.tif
and press 'U'.

3

Deactivate the Collapse Transforms mode for both copies.

4

Rename both copies as their names ' Shadow '.

5

Solo both WONK . . . Shadow and CloudsLoop.mov .

6

Move the CTI to WONK . . . Shadow 's last Keyframes.

7

Select WONK . . . Shadow and add Effect Perspective Radial

Shadow.

8

Move the CTI halfway between the WONK . . . Shadow Keyframes.

9

Press 'U' to further open the properties Keyframes.

10

In the Radio Shadow properties, set Opacity 20.0%, Projection

Distance 20.0, and Softness 48.0.

11

Set the layer to Multiply.