Let's begin our television lower third. Look at the final image below. This is what were creating. We are creating the 6:30 portion of this project right now. We are creating those designs for the lower third:
- Create a new 1920 x 1080 comp. Frame rate 29.97.
- Make it 9 seconds—0:00:09:00. Name it pattern.
- Layer | New | Solid change color to blue.
- Create a circle shape with the ellipse tool.
Insert image of ellipse shape. - Drag another ellipse.
Insert second ellipse mask. - Choose subtract mask.
insert cutout ellipse.
This will allow you to cut out a shade inside of your first mask. - Choose the pan behind tool.
This will allow to move your anchor point. And you can transform around this point.
insert adjusting anchor point - Scale down layer.
- Move it up into the top left corner.
- Duplicate this layer.
- Reposition this layer as seen in the example below.
insert image of positioned shape. - Repeat this process until you have at least six circle shapes in your composition.
Just like Photoshop, you can put a variety of assets in one folder in After Effects. In After Eeffects this is called precomposing. It's a simple process to precompose something however the concept behind it is a little bit more complicated. The way to precompose these objects in our scene is to have transparent background and
select everything in your composition.
Go up to the top panel under layer and choose precompose.
When you precoose something you get a dialog box. This gives you options to name your precomp. Choose the option to move all your attributes into the new composition:
