Lighting & Rendering
To commence, post-animation completion, I coordinated the lighting for each scene. This involved managing various lights, such as spotlights, directional lights, and skydome lights, ensuring consistent texture mapping and lighting parameters. Subsequently, I fine-tuned the lighting angles for individual scenes, established rendering parameters, and initiated the rendering process.
BGM & Sound effects
For my voiceover, I primarily sought resources from AI-generated music platforms like Soundraw and some ambient tracks from independent musicians. Ultimately, I discovered background music (BGM) from a French music artist, In Love with a Ghost, from which I selected several excerpted segments. Sound effects mainly originated from both self-recorded sounds, like footsteps and dog barks, and simple sounds found through online searches.
Link For ai music : https://soundraw.io/create_music
Link For in love with a ghost :https://www.instagram.com/lvghstmusic/
Composition
In the final phase, I imported all elements into Adobe After Effects for composition. I edited all music and footage, incorporating some straightforward graphic and text effects, such as starting and ending text animations. Notably, one segment features an animated twinkling star effect. Additionally, certain segments include adjustments to playback speed, lens blur, exposure, and color correction.
Text animation in AE:https://motionarray.com/learn/after-effects/how-to-create-5-awesome-text-animations-in-after-effects/
sparkling star effects link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu7QTLSc9rE