Animation Part two

Something we all found ourselves using a lot was the pre-compose tool, as it has two main benefits that we took advantage of, space saving and the ability to add one effect to multiple files and have them all work in the same way.

Firstly, we were able to transform this
 
into this

all of those gradient files have now become on composition called Pre-Comp 1 and all those files can be accessed and changed just by clicking on pre-comp, and when working with several layers this became a godsend, we obviously labelled everything later to clear it up even more but this alone allowed us to work with many layers in an organised manner.

The second benefit can be seen in our wiggle pre comp, here the drop seemed to static but we had manipulated and animated several elements within the drop, therefore adding a wiggle effect to each part may have caused them to act in different ways and would take several sun sets and rises to complete, instead we pre composed it and added the effect to the composition, making the effect the same on each layer within the pre comp and taking a matter of seconds.