Positioning the Sky

When you turn on the visibility of the Sky comp, it appears in the middle of the ground plane. Select Sky, and move it away from the camera on the Z-axis. Move Sky back so it intersects the ground plane at the horizon but doesn’t show any white from the ground plane where the two meet (Figure 15-37).

Figure 15-37: Sky precomp positioned

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As it moves back, it becomes smaller in the Active Camera view. If you’re careful to select only the Z-axis, and don’t change the X and Y coordinates, Sky will stay in the correct relative position to the rest of the composition, and you can uniformly scale it up to fill the Active Camera ...

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