[Karl-jason Mawdsley]

Never mind – I precomposed the layer with the mask and it worked.
Ta

KJ Mawdsley
Editor/Mograph Designer

[Karl-jason Mawdsley]

Hi John,

Like Dave said, I can’t see this being the best way to do something but a possible work around would be to place all the layers you need to autotrace sequentially > Precompose and then autotrace that one layer.
Tomorrow morning you can just split the results into separate layers.

Hope this helps.

KJ Mawdsley
Editor/Mograph Designer

[Karl-jason Mawdsley]

It depends what the final look you’re going for is but you could apply something like Turbulent Displace > Animate the Evolution property > Precompose your layer > Then apply the effect Posterize Time to bring your frame rate down.
Alternatively, if you don’t want your text to look distorted you can apply a wiggle effect to the text Rotation and Position parameters and then > Precompose > Posterize Time. That way your text will just move around in a jittery fashion.

KJ Mawdsley
Editor/Mograph Designer

[Karl-jason Mawdsley]

The problem probably isn\’t the ball physics, it\’s probably your keyframes. You should try using the graph editor. Nick Campbell has a great tutorial on keyframes and the graph editor here: https://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2009/03/guide-to-keyframes-in-after-effects/

Hope this helps.

KJ Mawdsley
Editor/Mograph Designer

[Karl-jason Mawdsley]

Hi,

Sorry about the late reply – I had my notification turned off by accident.
The corner pin isn’t really designed to crush something that small as I understand it. If you want something that small, I’d resize it in photoshop first and then bring it in to AE.

Again, sorry about the late reply. Hope this helps.

KJ Mawdsley
Editor/Mograph Designer

[Karl-jason Mawdsley]

No problem. PNG doesn’t support animation. It would have just exported it as a sequence of still images and then you could have imported that into AE as an image sequence.

Glad I could help.

KJ Mawdsley
Editor/Mograph Designer

[Karl-jason Mawdsley]

The lens convex particle type gets it’s colour value from the layer you place the effect on. So if you’ve created a black solid and applied that particle type to it, you won’t see it against a black background. Try changing your solid colour to white.

If that’s not the problem then if you can give me some more details about the steps you’re taking, I’ll try my best to help.

KJ Mawdsley
Editor/Mograph Designer

[Karl-jason Mawdsley]

If you just want to cut to a shot of the red spot you could probably just cut to another copy of the pre-comp without CC Sphere applied – it won’t matter that it’s not spherical because you’re zoomed in so much anyway. Then just scale the layer to the size you want it.
Using mesh warp would work to have them bend round the spot – then mask out the spot on top with a separate layer.
To get movement inside your spot you can apply Turbulent Displace with a mode of liquify and then animate the evolution. Make sure you turn your size and amount down so it’s not distorting it too much and also make sure the centre of the displacement is the centre of the spot.

That should look ok.

KJ Mawdsley
Editor/Mograph Designer

[Karl-jason Mawdsley]

Hi Haik

Maltaannon has a great tutorial on creating 3D planets here. I’m not sure if that tutorial covers linking to a camera but if it doesn’t you can see how to do it from videocopilot here. That gives you an expression to link the rotation values of cc spehere to the camera position – I modified it slightly to link it to the radius as well so you can zoom in. It was pretty cimple to modify but if you need the exact expression gimme a holler.

In terms of animating your gas bands you just need to simply duplicate your layer > mask of a band of gas > then animate it with the offset effect > repeat for all bands of gas. Then Precompose all your layers and apply CC Sphere.

I thought it would be easier to show than explain so I’ve done a quick example project file (CS4) and uploaded it here.

KJ Mawdsley
Editor/Mograph Designer

[Karl-jason Mawdsley]

Hi Haik

Maltaannon has a great tutorial on creating 3D planets here. I’m not sure if that tutorial covers linking to a camera but if it doesn’t you can see how to do it from videocopilot here. That gives you an expression to link the rotation values of cc spehere to the camera position – I modified it slightly to link it to the radius as well so you can zoom in. It was pretty cimple to modify but if you need the exact expression gimme a holler.

In terms of animating your gas bands you just need to simply duplicate your layer > mask of a band of gas > then animate it with the offset effect > repeat for all bands of gas. Then Precompose all your layers and apply CC Sphere.

I thought it would be easier to show than explain so I’ve done a quick example project file (CS4) and uploaded it here.

Hope this helps.

KJ Mawdsley
Editor/Mograph Designer