• Adobe After Effects

  Yet another CC Sphere Earth

  Posted by Alejandro Benavente on April 28, 2009 at 4:03 pm

  I think this is one of those common cases of trying to stretch a plugin use further than it really was meant to be. Anyway…

  I’ve got the usual earth with CC Sphere setup. My “texture” layer is vector-based, a shape layer. I did it that way in order not to loose resolution when I zoom into the earth to focus on a given country (kind of a Google Earth startup effect).
  Well, you guessed it… no luck! Looks like that my shape layer gets rasterized before the filter is applied, so I loose resolution as soon as I get close.
  I’m trying to fake the zoom animating the radius property in CC Sphere (as you probably know, moving the layer in Z, scaling it up, or using a 3D camera won’t cut it with cc sphere).
  I read in a similar thread about Boris CC including a more sophisticated sphere effect, but I really cannot afford any plugins right now…

  Any clue?
  Thanks a lot!
  Alex.

  Don Markus replied 12 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Alejandro Benavente

  April 28, 2009 at 4:27 pm

  Ouch.
  Simple, obvious, basic AE reasoning.

  Well, thanks a lot for the swift answer, Dave. Mental note: give the problem some thought before posting next time.

  Cheers!
  Alex.
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  David Bogie

  April 28, 2009 at 5:27 pm

  Just because I see this WAY too often from people who should know better: be sure your planet is rotating the correct direction so the sun rises in the east.

  bogiesan
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  Kathlyn Lindeboom

  April 28, 2009 at 10:22 pm

  You might take a look at this tutorial from Michael Park in our library:
  https://library.creativecow.net/articles/park_michael/3d_Earth.php

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  Alejandro Benavente

  April 29, 2009 at 8:40 am

  Thanks for the tip, Bogie; yeah, I read that piece of advice from you in another thread 🙂
  Indeed, the idea for the whole thing came from that Tutorial; I had already checked it out. Reasonably enough, Michael does not zoom into the earth… really nice effect he achieves, though.

  Anyway, my animation doesn’t go for the photorealistic style. It’s rather vector-looking, kind of news programme style. Thus, it has no sun rising, neither atmosphere effects, stars, and so on.

  Thanks for the tips anyway, guys.
  Alex.
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  Don Markus

  June 14, 2013 at 4:21 pm

  (The solution: make a gigantic sphere to begin with.)

  CC Sphere is the only way I know how to make a sphere…. How or what program would you use to create a gigantic one?

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