Antialiasing in After Effects CC.

Or Aliasing Prevention ; whichever works.
My question is how do I reduce the amount of aliasing apearing in a particular composition I'm working on?
The composition is a timelapse sequence, with slowly increasing scale between two keyframes. 
The timelapse footage is comprised of high resolution RAW stills captured on a Sony NEX-6, fitted with a Samyang 14mm f/2.8 at f/5.6 (it's sharpest aperture setting).
I've tried reducing sharpness, contrast and Clarity to zero in Adobe CameraRAW, but that gave no substantial improvement. Even reducing sharpness further by adding extra noise reduction didn't help.

Show reference screenshots/ frames (at original resolution).
Mylenium

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