Animating the sun

Animating movement in the scenery

The scenery outside the window is unrealistically static. For one thing, the sun should actually rise. In addition, shifting clouds and flying birds would bring this scene to life.

To make the sun rise in the sky, you’ll set keyframes for its Position, Scale, and Opacity properties.

1 In the Timeline panel, select the Sun layer, and expand its Transform properties.

2 Go to 4:07, and click the stopwatch icons () to set keyframes for the Position, Scale, and Opacity properties at their default values.

3 Go to 3:13.

4 Still working with the Sun layer, set its Scale to 33, 33% and its Opacity to 10%. After Effects adds a keyframe for each property.

5 Press the End key, or move the current-time indicator to the end of the composition.

6 For the Position property of the Sun layer, set the y value to 18, and then set the Scale values to 150, 150%. After Effects adds two keyframes.

You’ve just set keyframes that instruct the sun to move up and across the sky, and to become slightly larger and brighter as it rises.

7 Hide the Sun layer’s properties.

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