Magnifying Glass

A key object in my piece is a magnifying glass the explores the scene trying to work out the mystery. I want the objects to get larger when it moved over it, I got it to work but I feel like I could make it smoother.I also have a magnifying glass that travels over a forest.....

When looking at this image I felt like there was something missing, the the magnifying glass was going over the scene but nothing was happening. I'd previously made this background on photoshop    so there wasn't anything I could do about moving it on flash, so I would either have to create a            forest on flash or find another way. I was introduced to 'masking'.

I was able to create another layer of my forest that was zoomed in, that was only shown through the glass. Which I felt was extremely effective, the only issue had with this, was that I was a circle tool to mask a certain area. But I drew my glass by hand and as a result trying to get it fit perfectly was hard, it doesn't look too bad. It's just slightly off that the frame of the magnifying glass changes width.

Within the magnifying glass I wanted it to find the hound, but to make it creepier I wanted the audience to just see the eyes glowing red. Although I feel like the background it still not dark enough to just see the eyes, I would need it to basically be pitch black. I'll see if I decide to change this.