2d animation club - FIYAAAAAAH (fire)

for 2d animation club, i've found with a few of my latest animations that I have been looking to create more advanced works in regards to colours, shapes and blending modes. For that reason, I think I am going to look into combining the work i do in Adobe Animate with Adobe After Effects.

For the fire prompt this week, I watched 2 separate tutorials on how to create simple fire animations in 2D. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d6IDldBNLE&t=53s

This first video was incredibly quick and easy to follow and I felt confident up until halfway through, then found that I was having trouble with duplicating layers. It seemed that the duplicate layers were not showing up, and I thought it was a bug and couldnt find any solutions immediately online

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upHsOP-w8oY&t=2s

I looked at this fire tutorial that was using an identical method, and it was more comprehensive in showing me that I had two layers to duplicate: the alpha matte tracking layer as well as the top layer. This wasn't clear in the first video, and solved my issue.

I then coloured all the layers a firey yellow and added a gaussian blur effect on all of them as well for a firey effect

From using After Effects, I've noticed that if I want to make clean-cut, colourful animations with lighting effects and blend modes, I will probably need to import my animations from Animate into AE to do so