Cosmic zoom…any tutorials available?…i’ve searched and not found any…

[Antony Buonomo]

Yes, it’s relatively easy to achieve this effect to a good standard. However, the quality of the effect depends almost completely on the quality of the footage/stills that you obtain. There are many ways a good graphic artist can use AE to enhance decent footage, but there is no way crappy footage can be made to look like high-end commercial work.

Break down the shot you want; from beginning to end, then get the very best material you can for every stage. If you want to start on a person, is it footage or a still? If footage, is it real or from an animation packsge? Does the footage contain a zoom or will you have to do it in AE? Questions like this all the way through your sequence will give you the best results your budget/time allows. Be warned, if you want high-end results it will cost you. There is no way around this. I am constantly amazed (nothing personal; not aimed at you) at how some people expect the same quality they see in big-budget work but done on the cheap. Just doesn’t happen.

Good luck and let us know how you get on.

[Andy Burmeister]

for starters

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=1&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rippon_richard/cloud_flythru/index.html