I'm still stumbling with After Effects's controls and abilities. I'm not all that happy with the first project; for the amount of time it took me it feels like it should be something much better than it is. Learning process I suppose...
Edited the image of the car in Photoshop, imported the layers into AE and manipulated the wheel's rotation with blur, the body's slight rise and fall as well as the color hue, then moved them all offscreen. The audio was from a video I shot years ago I found in my event archives.
I wanted the car to turn around and go back across the screen the opposeite way in a smaller size, but I couldn't parent the wheels to the body since I did not want them to move up and down with the body and that created a lot of headache trying to align the layers in a smaller size and have them follow, etc. I'm sure I'm making it harder than it really is, but it was frustrating when the transforms did not work right.
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First of all, its kind of funny that you are unhappy with this project, because trust me, you are ahead of the curve. The animation is outstanding. You recognized the problem with parenting the wheels to the body because you want them to behave independently (to some degree). There are a couple of ways around this, but I might have made one wheel the parent of the other and the body, then animated the body moving up and down, but not the wheel. A child will follow the parent, but it can animate on its own in relation to the parent. Regardless, great work.
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