Animated Landscape

The steps I took in the animation workflow were first setting up my landscape, by sorting every item I wanted to animate into its own layer. Next, I downloaded the landscape as an Ai file, opened a new document in After Effects, selected the landscape as footage, and set it to open as a composition. After that, I set it to 1620 x 1080 in the composition settings at the top of the screen. I then clicked Layer>New>Null Object, which I used to scale and continuously rasterize my layers using the parent pick whip. Next up, I added the simple animations that just require me to create a motion path for the subject. After that, I used position keyframes to make more complex animation, mainly pose-to-pose animations. Then I used the puppet pin tool to make a more complex animation of getting the leaves to look like they’re moving with the wind. After that, I added a new solid layer, went into the effects and added a rain effect in the foreground. Next, I converted youtube videos to mp3 files and added them into my composition. Finally, I downloaded the composition and uploaded it to youtube.