Apple Pro Training Series: Shake 3: Professional Compositing and Special Effects > Animation > Creating the Fairy - Pg. : Creative Edge

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Creating the Fairy

For this lesson, you will first create a fairy element and then add a soft flickering light to it.

FileIn and View the Source Clips

1.	Start Shake.
2.	FileIn the four elements from the Lesson12 folder using Cmd-A and select OK. The clips are fairy, fairy_bgd, flicker, and fairy_comp.
3.	Double-click on fairy_comp to see it in the Viewer.
4.	Set the Globals timeRange to 1-50 and then click the Home icon at the bottom right of the interface to set the Time Bar to the same range.
5.	Click the Flipbook icon and play the clip once it is loaded. This is the final effect that you are going to build.
6.	Close the flipbook.
7.	Delete the fairy_comp clip from the Node workspace.
8.	Make a flipbook of the fairy clip. This is your fairy element.
9.	Make a flipbook of the fairy_bgd clip. This will serve as the background for the fairy element.
10.	Close the flipbooks when you are done.

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