moving background

[Todd Kopriva]

It’s hard for us to know how to help you when you aren’t telling us what you’ve tried so far and exactly what problems you’re having.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[John Nelson]

Sorry for being so non-descriptive. I think I might have figured it out, though.

What I’m trying to do is to have a stationery (animated) cartoon car and driver with a moving background. Think a long strip of drawings moving in the background from right to left; trees, clouds, buildings, etc. as the foreground car travels along; wheels turning, bouncing up and down.

I ran a test by making the background comp twice as long as the comp for the car and nesting it. Don’t know if that is the correct/easiest method but it worked. If you have an easier method I would like to hear it. The moving background will be made up using the paint effect, drawing the clouds, etc.

Thanks for the quick input.

https://www.omproductions.net

[Todd Kopriva]

Play with the Offset effect. It can be useful for the kind of thing that you describe.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[John Nelson]

Thanks again Todd. I’ll give it a try and report back.

https://www.omproductions.net

[Chris Brett]

— you could also try doing a search for multi-planing —-chris —

[John Nelson]

After pondering a solution I decided to make a long photoshop layer and move it across the screen from right to left. Worked perfectly.

Thanks for all the input.

https://www.omproductions.net