Dancing on Floating Isles. CH in a music video

Hi there,

I'm really glad that you manage to get your project done if you want a really easy way to create a parallax effect with layers without the use of expressions your style;

Parent each layer in the timeline to the one above it the make them 3-D. select them all and then hit P to open their position value.

With them all selected scrub .on the Z position value to push the layers away from the screen. Each one will move by the same amount for each one will also pick up movement from previous one meaning that you have equal amount of space between each layer. Doing this will make the layers appear smaller but the Nextep will solve that.

They're still selected hit the S key to open up the scale property and then scale the layers up till they fit the edges of the screen this will enable you to preserve the original layout but the layers will have space between them.

No add a camera to your scene, scrub the position value of the camera to change your angle of view. move the camera in and out on the Z axis to get closer to the scene.

If the layers edges are loopable (which can be done using the offset filter in photo shop to create seamless edges). Then you can use the animatable offset filter in after effects to animate layers moving continuously this gives the effect of a camera moving through the landscape and the distance between the layers will create parallax effect.

Hope this helps,

Angie Taylor – HTTP://WWW.Creativecabin.co.uk

Thank you so much oksamurai​ and Lupillo Arellano​! It's a funny feeling to have this released and off my desk, quite hard to believe it's actually finished …

I'm especially glad you mentioned the AE integration - I was afraid that anyone would see I'm an AE noob.

My first plan was to make a flat style video with a variety of weird characters in their own worlds (like in the game Hohokum), but it didn't work out with the style and speed of the song. So I ended up with AE at last.

It was particularly hard to work out the parallax effect during the train ride. In the beginning I didn't know what I was actually looking for tutorial-wise. Most tutorials are "how-tos" just telling you "click this, click that, type in expression x and you got that special effect". Sometimes you'll need sonething a little more in-depth.

But what almost made me give up was that every tutorial I needed was in English (no problem with that) and my AE version in German (big problem). It maddening to have to search every menu for the German equivalent of the function shown in the tut.

The video was just released! I'm very curious how people will like it …

Watch the full video here DRACHENFLUG - DRACHENWISSEN (Official Music Video)

DRACHENFLUG - DRACHENWISSEN (Official Music Video) - YouTube

Wow this is looking incredible! I love the style. Yes, please let us know when it's out, I'd love to see the final piece!