Technical Tutorial

So today I am going to teach you how to make a repeating fall background in Adobe After Effects.

1.) First you create your background in Photoshop and set it to the desired dimensions for your project. 

2.) Next you have to import that file into After Effects as editable Photoshop layers.

3.) After that you have to copy and past the image three times in your composition and stack them on top of one another. After that you have to click and drag the spiral icons next to each image layer and then drag them to the layer you want to parent it to.

4.) After linking these layers to a parent function you have to create a node and link the layer that has the other layers attached to it to that node. After that you move the node with keyframes in the desired direction to get the repeating background effect.

If you did everything right, this should be what it looks like.

And there you have it! One repeating background for you.