Creating an animated background for video

At this point, you can render any frame in your animation, and it will display your text with a gray background only. Wouldn't it be great to add a backdrop to the scene? It could be something like an animated background.

The plan when creating a background for our video is to add a plane at the bottom of our scene and insert a texture onto the object. Using a plane will allow us to create an animation for it later.

Using the Shift + A keys or the Add menu, create a plane and align it to the center of your scene. Make sure the plane stays behind both text objects, and if necessary, move it down along the Z-axis. Your final layout should look something like the following:

You can use the S key to ...

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