• Adobe After Effects

  How to Create Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)

  Posted by Darren Edwards on May 9, 2007 at 12:48 pm

  Was asked ‘…could I create aurora borealis in AE?’ recently. I
  said ‘Yes’ because I presume it’s quite easy, especially with
  Trapcode. I’m interested in other (more DIY) methods of producing
  it though, because the client has AE on his Mac but isn’t trained in
  Trapcode, so it would be nice to give him a project file he was able
  to tweak willy-nilly post-sign off.

  Cheers,
  Darren.

  myspace.com/xgfmedia

  Ari Grunzeweig replied 17 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Mark

  May 9, 2007 at 2:24 pm

  I di this in Boris Red years ago…I wrote a tutorial on it which is here on the COW….

  Now, if I were to do it again in AE, I would use solids, masks, turbulent displace, blur, fractal noise and a displacement map.

  Mark

  PS…the stars on the tutorial are kind ugly…hahahaha
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  Steveareno

  May 10, 2007 at 7:35 am

  Well recently was looking to do the same thing and after much fiddling around without much success found a nice project file at https://www.trapcode-people.net/index.php

  Think it’s one of the last ones listed so dig deep and enjoy.

  Comes a time when a blind man says can’t you see…
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  Darren Edwards

  May 11, 2007 at 12:04 pm

  Ah, I forgot about the Trapcode People archive. But like I
  said, I may end up doing it the hard way (because I sure
  ain’t given the client a copy of Trapcode for free) – so
  cheers Mark for your input too.

  Darren.

  myspace.com/xgfmedia
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  Ari Grunzeweig

  January 26, 2009 at 5:14 am

  Hi,

  It seems this website along with the mentioned tutorial have gone to a better place..

  Any idea if I can find that tutorial somewhere else?

  Thanks!!

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