• Adobe After Effects

  3d view of earth

  Posted by Bill Clotz on December 18, 2007 at 6:09 pm

  I’d like to create a shot of the earth with some stars and galaxies in the background, and I want the camera to circle around it a bit. Not a huge camera movement, like a full 360 or anything like that, but just a small movement that can give it a 3d look.

  I’ve used CC Sphere to create the earth, but I’m a little stumped as to what to do next. It doesn’t look like CC Sphere can use a camera, but I guess I can manually adjust the rotation on the plugin to fake it. Is there a way I could maybe tie the plugin to a camera through an expression or something though? And how about the stars in the background? What would be my best bet for creating something like that?

  Matjusm replied 18 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Kevin Camp

  December 18, 2007 at 6:24 pm

  checkout tutorials 41a and 41b at videocopilot.net, andrew shows how to link the cc sphere parameters to a comp camera to get better control of those variables…

  Kevin Camp
  Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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  Bill Clotz

  December 18, 2007 at 11:48 pm

  Thanks, thats quite helpful.
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  Matjusm

  December 19, 2007 at 8:30 pm

  You could use something like Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator/Pro Animator to create a 3D sphere and then make its surface texture into that of a world map. This way you

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