For my beach setting, I decided not to edit the lighting just yet, because this was the setting I had to adjust most as there were lots of little bits that needed to be fixed. I started off with the dolphin that appears slightly first, and kept altering the animation so that it rotated naturally, as opposed to just moving horizontally across the screen and back under the water again.
I also decided to create some water droplet layers in Photoshop and add them as components into my After Effects file, so that they could act as the 'splash' for when the dolphins jump back into the water again. This was a very tedious process for me because I didn't want the droplets to be big, in fact very small, so it was hard to manoeuvre them as I could barely see them, so this took quite a while. I changed the colours of them to match the aesthetic of the sequence.
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| Without lighting adjustments. |
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| With lighting adjustments. |
It was then time to adjust the lighting which I think in this particular sequence, looks the most dramatic in terms of change. Though I am very pleased with the outcome. I feel like the animation hasn't lost the essence of the beach, but it looks a lot more darker and serious and supposed to light and fluffy.
I then lastly need to edit the last dolphin which I was advised hangs for too long in the air and moves around a bit too much. I solved this by deleting this layer and starting again. Instead of the dolphin hanging in the air, in fact it as soon as it reaches mid air, this is when the Discovery Channel logo appears, which I also had to lower towards the safety zones. The dolphin instead jumps back into the sea promoting another splash and the screen gently goes black, like so:
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