looking through a snow globe effect

[Bill Clotz]

I did something kinda like this once, but without the shaking.

If it doesn’t have to look super-realistic, then I don’t think it would be much trouble. You can find a tutorial for creating a snow globe in photoshop here: https://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/blsnowglobe1.htm
You want to keep the glass part as a seperate layer when you bring it into after effects, so you can put your source and the snow under it.

For the snow, there are a number of different plugins that you can use, but the shaking will probably be tough with any of them. One simple solution might be to apply numerous copies of a snow effect, and when you “shake” the globe, change the directions of all these effects, so that you have a lot of snow effects all shooting around in different directions, then you could have them slowly revert to falling normally.

[Steve Roberts]

I see the blurring and shaking being faked, with a few frames here and there of streaks and blurred white stuff and blurred streaky pictures. It’s kind of an editorial thing.

The gently falling snow could be done with AE’s CC snow effect. Maybe Particle Plyaground.

[Chad Ashton]

Thanks for the input I will check the different ideas you guys gave and go for it.

[Jim Tierney]

You can also use Bulge, CC Lens, or Optics Compensation to add the refraction around the edges that you’d normally see in a glass globe.

cheers,
Jim

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