Intro to After Affects: Working with Compositions

        One thing you can do with layers is to add modes to them to make it look like a scary or exciting scenes. You can add a blending tool to give it a fog felling. A overlay so your text will have the right opacity for your scenes. You can create stencils for your background or texts. Finally you can add light to it to the scene.

         Making masks in your layers will help your scenes pop out a little bit more. When you make a mask, you can either make a mask to help display it or hide it for a time being.

       Finally you can add effects to it. After making your animations. You can go to effects and add wacky kinks to it. For example: Gaussian Blur