my CC Sphere Earth Composition + project file

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my CC Sphere Earth Composition + project file

Posted by Filip Vandueren on May 31, 2005 at 4:48 pm
Hey all,

I figured, why not have a go at this 😎
it’s an earth with clouds, and withlights that go on when it’s night-time

here’s a kinda complete earth model in After Effects.
It doesn’t render very fast, but I think it’s worth it:

Project file:
https://www.vandueren.be/forumstuff/earth/earth.zip

The textures are pretty low-res, but you can find better quality textures quite easily at Nasa.

For Whom it may concern, the recipe, bottom to top:
- some stars
- the night-texture with CC-Sphere,
  - Ambient Shading 100%, Diffuse shading 0%
- the daytime-texture with CC Sphere,
  - Ambient Shading 100%, Diffuse shading 0%
  luma matte enabled
- as luma matte; a white solid with CC sphere,
  - light cranked up to 500% so it has more contrast
  - Ambient 0%; Diffuse shading: 100%
- the clouds are greyscale
  - Shift Channels effect, “take Alpha from ‘red'” to make them transparant,
  - Tint effect to give it a slight blueish hue.
  - CC Sphere,
    
    Ambient Shading 10%, Diffuse shading 90%
  - a 2d dropshadow to give it some relief
  - Some curves to enhance the alpha, brightness, and make it a little more blueish
- An adjustment layer to make the whole thing glow a bit. set to “Add”
  - Channel Combiner Max RGB -> Lightness
  - Brighntess Contrast: contrast +50
  - Hue/Saturation: Saturation-50
  - Fast Blur at 100 px
  Then all the CC Spheres are linked together with parenting & their effects-parameters with expressions so only one sphere needs to be altered.
  The layer is also rotated 23.5
Filip Vandueren replied 16 years ago 4 Members · 8 Replies
8 Replies

Tom Daigon
May 31, 2005 at 6:20 pm

Nice work Filip!! I especially liked the Day-Night touch.
Kathlyn Lindeboom
May 31, 2005 at 6:40 pm

Very nice, Filip. Mind if I grab it for the Library?

Kathlyn Lindeboom
The Mistress of Mmmooooo!
Filip Vandueren
May 31, 2005 at 10:22 pm

Hi Kathlyn,
I’d be honoured, but let me flesh it out some more, maybe add the moon 😉
definately some more screenshits.
I’ll email the files over, probably after the weekend.
Kathlyn Lindeboom
May 31, 2005 at 10:59 pm

That would be great.

Thanks.

Kathlyn Lindeboom
The Mistress of Mmmooooo!
Tom Daigon
May 31, 2005 at 10:59 pm

“definately some more screenshits”
I hate it when that happens (a little cross-language humour)
Filip Vandueren
May 31, 2005 at 11:44 pm

Woops,

now I have to wash my keyboard with soap 😉
Amithraj Arehalli
May 12, 2010 at 11:03 pm

THe link u provided is not working

thanks in advance
Filip Vandueren
May 13, 2010 at 1:42 am

Dude,

that link is five years old…
That’s a century in internet years 😉

and yet: it’s still there though my provider accidentally changed one letter in the url to uppercase:

https://users.telenet.be/Vandueren/forumstuff/earth/

UPDATE 2019:
a link to nearly all of my old dead links :
13354_vanduerenforumstuff.zip

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