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realistic sun close up
Can anyone please advise me on how to create a realistic close up of the sun in after effects. I want to show the sun kind of boiling, explosions and flares coming out of it, the sun radiating heat….not much there then…lol.
hope someone can help.lorraine x
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Do you want to start that from scratch or you have some material on your own to begin with?
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its pretty much from scratch. i have experimented using the sphere and fractal noise, colorama etc but can’t get the desired effect.
Thanks lorraine
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i know its not after effects. But particle illusion has some very good presets for this kind of a look.
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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Lorraine,
There are some realistic sun and planets over at the link below, you
can download free of charge and composite in your project…cant get
better than these in realism, they are incredible.
https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/archive/viewall/Steve Rhoden
Creative Director
TNX EFFECTS STUDIOS.
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Wow, what a fantastic site…Thanks so much.
Lorraine
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Sometimes I think we forget about good old smoke and mirrors tricks.
I had to do a closeup of the sun for a project I was working on once, and I filmed a pan full of very salty boiling water. I slowed it down, manipulated the color, and added a bit of a curve to it in post.
People asked me if it was stock footage… lol.
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hmmmm. . .I’d think that you could play around alot with Fractal Noise and add some color to it. For the boiling explosions and such I’m not sure what you could use, but Chet’s idea is a grand one. For the flares and such, if you’ve got Particular then that would probably be a good start.
Seems like an interesting experiment!
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Actually, I can do that pretty easily for you in 3ds Max.
Long live the new flesh!
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