twinkling stars…?

[Damian Dunne]

yeah i think creating an expression would be the way to go. Something like the DIGIEFFECTS BESERK: de starfield plugin would do the trick as well. All their plugins are pretty cool for kiche stuff like that.
D.

[Filip Vandueren]

Sometimes I use a very high frequency noise, and use a levels filter to crush it so bad that only a few points survive.
Blur that or use TrapCodes starglow, and then slowly animate the noise.

Doesn’t give you coloured stars though.

You might also do it the other way around:
start with some coloured stars (perhaps even one of the true starmaps you can download) and multiply a high contrast, low fequency noise over it, slowly animate that: it will ‘twinkle’ the existing stars by obscuring them.
screen/add/lighten some more stars over that don’t change, and add some starglow if you need more kitsch.

https://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/stars.html

the Yale map in particular works well: it only shows the brightest stars.

[Jim Tierney]

If you have AE 6.5, you can use CC Particle World or CC Particle Systems II to easily do this.

Very cool plugins…

cheers,
Jim

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