After-Effects- Bare My Soul

"I'd sooner bare my soul a thousand times
Than allow it to go unnoticed.
Darkness and Light, swirling together,
Contained in a fragile shell." - Bare My Soul (2016)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFgo_diQlDw

I wrote this poem earlier this year, then decided to use it for my Typography practice.

- 7 layers for the poem
- seperate out into manageable chunks
   - | I'd sooner bare my soul | a thousand times |
| Than allow it to go unnoticed. |
| Darkness | and Light, | swirling together, |
| Contained in a fragile shell |
- include images
   - cracked wall background

- import .psd file
   - layers already correct
- composition- retain layer sizes
- HDTV- 1920x1080
- 25fps

- In After-Effects window
   - quality setting (straight line icon)
   - sharpen (sun icon)
   - 3D on (cake icon)- You found the Z-axis! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I8lv9NYoj0