Yeah, knowing exactly what is on each layer helps a lot. I had a classmate do my backgrounds and they looked great, but some of the layers were improperly labeled and unorganized, so I spent hours trying to create a simple zoom out effect, but certain pieces were moving that shouldn’t and it was a mess, so if you get your backgrounds from someone else ask them how they organized it before you start compositing so you don’t break the scene lol. It was eventually repaired lol.

Literally said out loud when I saw the thumbnail “Hey I’m a dummy!” Then I burst out in laughter when I realized I had said that in all seriousness.

My biggest disagreement with this video is the order of colours in the shading process. One of the biggest changes I have made to my shading workflow is using the darkest shadow as the base colour. This allows you to paint on the additional light at each layer with an approach that resembles how light actually works and trains your mind's eye to know what should look right in regards to shading.

haven’t watched it yet, but i always needed to understand backgrounds for animation, thank you!

I'm in my first year of animation school and while it's super helpful, I still love coming back to these videos for extra practice :D

The opening animation makes e feel so cozy and relaxed.

This is a great demonstration. Lots of useful tips in this episode.

This was the overview I was looking for, thank you!

If there is another channel with better information and instruction than this, I certainly don't know of it!. This is quality information on this channel!. Outstanding!.👍🏽💯

Great advice and some excellent tips! Since you're already using After Effects, one trick for giving your animation a little extra oomf is to use the skew and distort functions in AE. Think of it as an extra layer of squash-and-stretch which can be applied fast, and is a good option to redrawing your animation. There are also tricks using functions like Light-Sweep, to add rim light to layers, and using the exponential scaling function for FG to BG character movement. For the self-contained animator AE is a must have.

Always making useful videos thank tou

Great things to consider, thank you!

grateful for this!

This is why I need to take a course of how to do 3d art like Blender or Sketchup. That would make me easier to draw the backgrounds for my arts.

exactly what I needed 😅 thanks 🧡

Thank you! Very helpful :)

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MORE COMPOSTING TUTORIALS PREFERABLY MIXING 2D CHARACTERS WITH 3D ELEMENTS LIKE 2D CHARACTERS IN VEHICLES ETC....🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

this is my biggest struggle as an animator.. thanks friend

OMG THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO

Thanks teacher

I work as a background supervisor for a smaller studio and man is it nice to see a video about backgrounds in animation as they are so rare lol. Also a trick I figured out that helps to the flatting for import is using smart objects in photoshop. It makes something like a png layer you can click into and then edit all the original groups. It also works well to update reuse as if you edit one smart objected say tree it will update all other trees of the same smart objects in the file. They also speed up the file, as smart objects take up less ram the the full raw files. I think after effects can even read smart objects as smart objects so you can update the original file and it will automatically update in after effects. My studio uses flash though which very much can't so I've not tested it myself. Ether way great video!

Thank you very much for this video

thank u toniko

Great content very useful

Cool

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Thanks.

New subscriber here 😁 . Absolutely love your work . How would you do a background for someone running towards the camera ? I would love to hear your approach. Kind thanks 😊

Nice

THIS!!!

Hi buddy! What size do you make your backgrounds if you video is in 1080 x 1920? Is necessary work it in 4k? Thanks :)

This was very informative and I took some good notes. However I'm really looking for a tutorial on how to use layers to add background/assets to my animation scenes. Like step by step because it is really confusing with the layer folders and animation folders etc. I'm using Clip Studio Paint btw. I saw you doing it at the end, but if anyone knows a proper tutorial please let me know.

Anyone any advice on having backgrounds scroll zoom in and out etc i always get wierd wobble and bounce

I'm still a dummy but now I know more about backgrounds

What color should I be making my lines?

Is there a way to find references for nature backgrounds? I don't want them to be too simple or too detailed, but I can't find pictures for these kinds or background styles

How’s the resolution size you use for BGs?

Me: Scrolling Background for “DUMMIES” Me: how does he know me so well

bro, how to animate From one single picture refrence?.

Where do you paint these

Hello sir, i am your big fan from India. Sir i have a very strong urge to learn animation from you through your 'the complete introduction to 2d animation course'. Sir my economic condition is very poor these days😔, I can't afford the price of the course right now but I will surely do my best in learning the skills teach by you and I will pay the amount of the course when I'll get some work through my art. Please help me so I can access your course.🙏 I hope you will understand my situation and help me in my tough time. Thank you sir🙏💛

I don't like the word dummies Much better if say beginners instead