• Adobe After Effects

  animate a layer behind a mask

  Posted by Carlos Ferguson on August 14, 2007 at 6:15 pm

  Hi All,

  I would like to take a still image (a painting of a night landscape) and rotate stars in the sky area only while still being able to see the original sky behind the stars. It would seem like I want to creat a mask (over everything but the sky area) for the star layer that stays still while I animate the stars behind it?

  I did this and then tried panning behind the mask but can only control direction, not rotation.

  So I then made it work by using the painting as a bottom layer, the stars (animated to rotate and move) as a middle layer, and the painting again with the sky removed in photoshop as a top layer. Is there an easier way?
  Thanks for any help!!!

  Carlos

  Carlos Ferguson replied 18 years, 9 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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