I really wanted to attempt to create a beautiful sunrise at the beginning of my animation, I think a sunrise can signify many different things especially the idea of new beginnings and rebirth. I had somewhat an idea on where to begin but I decided to check if youtube had any tutorials and it turns out it did!
I found this amazing tutorial, something I can hopefully revisit in the future as I really love her art style, very game like and really beautiful use of shadows and lighting.
( Sun rise video)
(Sun video)
Very similar to how I’ve composited the rest of my work, I simply saved every file as a PNG, imported it into After Effects and the tried to figure out how to make the timings work with my frames. It was definitely trial and error but was for sure something that I enjoyed doing and will come back to at a later date. I think that for me, learning these skills in this project is going to be incredibly useful for me when it comes to my personal showcase next term and my collaboration Project. I would, of course, love to be to incorporate this into my final film, perhaps it could work behind the credits or the title.
Below are examples of some of the layers I made in order to attempt to create a sunrise.
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