For this final project, I animated three of my acrylic paintings. I added effects, overlays, and movements to each painting, giving them a life of their own. The first painting I animated was Mountain Sunset. I added a ripple effect to the sky emanating from the sun. Rings of orange, pink, blue, and indigo travel from sun outwards, moving the sky with it. The next effect I added was a displacement map on the water. This means that I added a video behind the layer and the layer in front picked up the movement and applied it to painting. I added a video of a waterfall that I took into the displacement map, and now the painted waterfall moves like real water. Finally, I added a shimmer to the foliage and mountain in the painting. A bar of light travels horizontally  across the section, imitating a reflection of natural light. The next painting I animated was Excoriate. I played with the eyes in this paintings by adding laser beams that shoot between the eyes. I added realism by manually editing the color and  speed of the beams, and the background color change. I found this painting to more effective when it was animated because the effects are all interacting with each other. The final painting I animated was Self Portrait. For this painting I specifically thought about the painting's original meaning: self-unrecognizability. This thought process inspired me to creating the rolling distortion effect on the left side of my face. I also added beams and light swirls to create additional visual excitement and interest.