This was… hectic. Ive never worked with as many layers in my life. I have very long panning scenes so my backgrounds had to be three times its length. A lot of camera work involved here. I definitely have that and paralaxing under the knee now.
I managed to light up my window with a spotlight, and a few keyframes of changing the intensity gave it a flickering effect.
I also made smoke with a wave warped long triangle.
In the forground I added the snowfall effect in the end. It kinda looked fake but I changed the angle and arranged it further away from the camera.
The run cycle
As I couldn’t do legs, I just cut him in half haha, I used rotation and pin tools on his tail and head to make natural movements.
Star Trails
To transition into the star trails I angled my camera up, and added a black solid underneath my layers so it turns the whole screen black.
I had to install Trapcode to make this. Making the trails was such a struggle to be honest, the indian I watched got confusing and at the end I had to figure out the keyframing by myself. The end result was rewarding however..
It looks pretty noice and I really like this ending to my animation.
Kristi Multimedia 