After Effects Putting It Together Part 6- Nights Sky

Now that all my animal and their separate location scenes have been put together I want to establish the lead-up scenes. I want to fully display all of my characters as they follow one another and the girl along their pathways, I would also like the sky to change to create the impression that time is passing so I can get to a point where the moon and stars can be used. Because of the sheer amount of characters I opted to make this segment last for 20 seconds. Changing the sky was easy too I key framed the tint so it would change at darken at the required time until eventually I was able to fade it to the original dark blue background colour.

Twilight Section - 20 Second Strip

Tinting (via keyframes)

 Final Colour

 Close-Up Bats

I broke up the long stretch of walking with a moon spin and a bat close -up - its a scene I made up after a little bit of consideration whilst staring at my assets. I thought it would be a nice touch to allow the bats their own time to shine since they didn't really interact with the music notes in their last close-up. I'm very happy with the moon which contrasts really well with the blue background, and I am hoping that this close-up will narrate some of the lyrics and that I can time it correctly for it to convey the additional meaning.

                                     

Moon Colour Correction

Since the next long stretch of movement depicts the nights sky I also opted to punctuate it with some close-ups of my animals. Thankfully on the wider angles I have chosen to have the stars simply pop into existence so I only had to place a few behind certain animals and match the base tone to the tint of the longer scene (as it darkens from blue to black).

 Animal Close- Ups

 Walking Shot