For this project I provided animated backgrounds and wipes. The animated Photoshopped backgrounds were composited in After Effects. I had to rebuild some of the lighting elements and use the “wiggle()” expression to have them twinkle. I also added lighting effects to the buildings for when the fireworks light up the sky. The fireworks were created using Trapcode’s Particular. For the wipes, the silks were created using Trapcode’s MIR plugin. This was the first project that I have used MIR. It has a bit of a learning curve but the results came out well. The colored powders were a stock footage asset that was keyed, retimed and recolored.
