I helped Andrew Kramer?!
And I’m the first to post?
Awesome!

Absolutely fantastic. Decades of anticipation pay off. Can’t wait to put this to use.

YESSSS!!!
I love you man!

Nice! Hey on a side note… have you considered adding all these tutorials to your Serious FX podast?

WOW!!!
You rock man!
Thanks for sharing all this fabulous tutorials!
Best Regards from Chile

Patolinx!

FINALLY!

Woooohoooooooo!!!!!!!
at last Andrew
thanks a bunch for making this

YEAh I conna Watch It Right Away

maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
i hve never seen a Mastermind like you……….
keeeeeep up the great work…
u r doing a very gud JOB
GOD bless you
thanks for sharing stuff like that with ussssssssssssssssssssss

great! finally its here

thanks Andrew ive been waiting for this for a long time… im going to watch it right now… thanks again for this great tutorial

great tutorial Andrew!!!!

That was just fantastic Andrew, you’ve done a really nice job, just like always. Thank you very much for sharing stuff like this with us!

Awsome.

Mitch(UK)

It whas verry verry Long….

But How do You get the Photo’s Of San Frisco ??

Hey Andrew man, this tutorial kicks ass… really amazing effect i always wondered how it was done. Only one question… where did ya get the hi res pictures… google earth? Saludos de Chile!

Thanks a bunch Andrew , i am gonna watch it right now

You almost had me there at the beginning of the tutorial with the balloon and line, I thought I had to physically film something. Great video you are the master

Great tutorial! You are truly amazing. I did miss the jokes…a little…

Hy, my master (Andrew)
You are professional. I can’t speak English…. Just a little bit. I have a question for you. Please tell me how do you make the eart? (The planet in the space) Becuse i gues the continent is from the google earth. ( I THINK) :S But the the planet is where to come from?

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ Maybe A goog Site !!!!

Thanks man looks great. vary cool and helpful tutorials.
keep it up
Musab from KUWAIT

Dude you rock my man,
thanks to you i started using after effects and you helped me so much on the way to make GREAT stuff, but for this tutorial… well see im kinda stuck where do you get the footage this time??
Ow and one more thing where can i find that plugin if you dont have pro ? :$ i kinda need it for a movie im making for school so…
any help is welcome.
But anyway go on making these kind of tutorials, you are the men…

Brilliant work Andrew, keep it up:)

very cool!

Well, I’m commenting because, well actually I don’t know why. I haven’t gotten a chance to watch it yet, but I’m assuming it’s mind blowing so thanks again for taking the time to provide these great learning resources! -A fan

I Think that is a really cool Tutorial and i have now great idee to make that of my art

Really nice Andrew

Simply amazing, Really, very simple idea, it just took Mr. Kramer to hit me over the head with the OHH! that’s how!

Thanks sir. Can’t wait to go and try it out.

nice i like…. so its all abt getting the right picture…I have been enlightened!!

Very good tutorial, will defintley put to use later on.

so nice mister! and nice intro

Wow!

That was cool!
Where do you get these images?

Thanks for sharing us these COOL tutorials for free!

Greetings from Hungary!

Wow, very cool tutorial Andrew. Thanks much for all the hard work, just bought your Action Essentials and Serious FX bundles, couldn’t be happier!!

Jonathan

Thanks so much You should make 2 versions, a PG-13, and the R rated one, lol

nice one :> need to add it to mine :>

WOW, man! Nice one! The shake and the rotation definately add more to the effect. So, well, basically it was cooler than I thought

Now we’ll be expecting to see your next tutorial, after you get that break!

We’re definately having a great time in this blog. You’re an awesome person for sharing all that knowledge with us for free and you also have a great sense of humor.

The more tutorials you make, the more I forget I’m still in Venezuela instead of Kramerland:P

Hey Andrew, i really love your tutorials!!
I’ve been making videos for a long time and After Effects is next on my learning list and you’ve really helped me alot.

I’ll give you credit in my next movie for the next Helicopter sim “Black Shark” when my movie is done. Cheers

Yeah, that was long, But great!

Awesome work Andrew!

Awww buggar, stupid PG Rating. Share them next time…

ummm..this tutorial doesn’t work in 6.5

I’m going to return my brand new mac..this is BS

….ahhh

Dude, you rock!
Keep the good stuff on!
Cheeers from Brazil

Awesome Tutorial Andrew
Any chance you tell us where you get the pictures ? I would also love to see a tutorials of how you make this earth… it’s really look great

Thanks for sharing this with us

Marc,
Paris, France

omfg that was one of your best tutorials! Great job man! Give your yourself a break and order some pizza with your friend’s money! (preferably Sam)

Thanks everyone. You should be able to follow along in 6.5, the project file may not work but it can be recreated.

Now if you need some fishing line, let me know I can point you in the right direction.

WOO! Nice one Andrew! This will look cool as some kind of computer tracking system. Good job!

Andrew!!!!!!!
My cam got lost in the space!!!!

(Great tutorial. I say the best person in the world are those that share the knowledge)

Wow, excellent, you certainly deserve your break after a 23 min tut. can’t imagine how long it took to make.

I’ve got a question , how did you erase the fishng line from in front of the camera, i’m stuck with it i can’t use my video.

Iliès, cg student,
Belgium

well i have done making a movie out of this tutorial which zooms out from my house i Norway, the pictures were hard to find, most of them crap but it worked:)
Realy nice work endeed

Yeah Andrew I need some more fishing line.

Do you have a tutorial on making any, or can you lend me some?

Hey nice work.

I’m really interested to know where you pulled your watermark free photos from. Or were they watermarked, and then photoshoped?

Cheers,
Jacob.

finally, was waiting a long time for this

Yes i can see these questions are popular among Jackobs even in stocks the resolution like that is rear.

Wow. Really great tutorial man.
And even better quality than in the blog (Earth Zoom Coming Soon!).
Seriously man, great tutorial and i’m going to use this effect.

Totally AWESOME!!!
Can’t wait to use it. Already thinking of a way to composite it with video and 3D.
Your the best man!

I forgot to add

Today is my birthday and this would make a great present

Thanks Andrew

one problem is that not every1 have access to photos of their towns etc to make this tutorial so those who realy cares for VFX will find them like me:)

For those who want air photos from diffrent levels,just try google earth

Andrew…awesome…best site for after effects tutorials in ages!!!
I cant wait 2 wake up in the morning and check if theres anything new.

greedings from Athens!

take care

Awesome!

Thanks so much

I love you to xD

Thanks a ton Andrew. Your tutorials are indeed the best and it makes us better. Muchos Gracious…

wow this is by far the best tutorial i have ever seen. i tried one like this from another site, but it doesnt come close to this one. as always, ur the best andrew:P

I think this must be one of the greatest tutorials you’ve made so far!

thanks alot!!!

great stuff man. I LOVE YOU!!! Well, I really hope you post a new blog telling us where you got those pics. I also want to know. Was the earth rendered in 3DS? Or was it a google earth, earth.

Im gonna try this but I might try adding a satalite on the way up.

Amaizing!…
You Are A Genius..

how would i do this if my starting point was a person?

Awesome Andrew – Awesome Tut !!!!

Your tutorials r the BEST coz U R THE BEST.

Thankyou 4 all ur Hardworks for creating these AWESOME FREE TUTORIALS.

THANX once again.

Warm Regards
Sandy

Fantastic!!

Great tut, i think this is a very good one. It helps you learn stuff that is very useable for other projects. So I say great job to you and cant wait for the next one.

Andrew,
Where did you get the hi res photos?

Look ma! Toppa tha world!

Echoing all the statements above….dude…THAT WAS AWESOME!

Its here! Its so awesome. Im going to start practicing this thanks!

Wonderful job!

@ Patolinx , I got mine for Google Earth, just keep zooming out and snapping shots. Quality on mine was 100%

Here you go Andrew, I attempted one from my street in Australia:

http://s33.photobucket.com/albums/d58/paddymazz/?action=view&current=EarthZoom.flv

Size = 7.8 megs

I think my wiggle went for a bit too long, but I still like the result.

Andrew, I lost my camera while floating up to space. If it lands onto your yard, let me know. I think I forgot to press record too. Darn. Your tutorials are great, how did you get those pictures of San Francisco? Thank you for making this tutorial.

This one is cool, now instead of lightsaber movies we all will be zooming in on each others backyards!

I would like to know where to get the high rez photos too. I mean i guess the hot air ballon might would.

But seriously, is there any other options besides google earth?

Hey andrew, im thinking about doing it in reverse, but then it zooms in to my house somehow and it shows my face and i say somthing really wierd

dunno how that could be achieved, but would be great aswell i guess

cool…but my refrigerator still not working!!!!

guess what you did wrong then?

Hey Andrew,

I’ve been waiting for this one for a long time. Thank You Thank you Thank You.

I also wanted to know if you have any favorite books on Expressions, I think that in order to really get the most out of After Effects it’s something I have to start learning. Again thank you for your tuts love em all.

Hey Andrew!
Very nice tutorial! Its awesome!
But where do you get these high resolution images?

great tutorial….i was wondering how did u create that glow around the earth…

Hey Andrew,

sweeeet tute mate, just one question … where’d you get the pics of San Fran ? Is there a stock site or something you prefer ?

Cheers,

Jaydubs.

great!how awesome fx it is!and good instruction as well.good job Mr Andrew.

Yay! Sadly I can’t watch it now because I’m on my laptop and flash goes slow but I’ll move onto another comp and watch it before I go to school! ;P

Gonads – Dan, 16
United Kingdom

Andrew, once again you proofed us and the world that you are a true VFX master!

Thanks for this f++++++ amazing tutorial.

Andrew, btw do you know NASA World Wind?

They use a 3d earth model for the sky view and it could be useful for all non-american ppl here who looking for a 3d earth of their area.

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/features.html

Result!

this should be your masterpiece (out of all the free tuts)

This looks great. But is it possible to make the whole earth rotate a bit in the end?

nicely done, but…ive tryed it, but i needed a zoom from the Earth to the city/house/town, all is great accept the clouds, cus they fade in again, and it looks …well…not realistic, and idea on that matter?

Ahhh, I wish I could tell you what is coming next week…

hi Andrew Kramer,
I am a graphic designer from Hong Kong.
My friend introduced this web site to me and I find that the tutorials are useful.
Your a good teacher and I want to say thanks to you!

Just thank you

Andrew, whats coming next week?????????!?!?!?!?!?!?!!

Hi Andrew!
i saw the same effect in Resident Evil: Extinction movie trailer, but there was also zoom out effect at 1:07 time and at the end camera pointed at Milas face. Just You need to see what i’m talking about http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/residentevilextinction/high.html
Can You do the same?

how did you zoom that far? and yet the quality of the picture is good?

This is so cool! Thanks for this great tutorial..

Andrew you rock!
A few days since you introduce that, I was trying to figure out a way to do it, and since I did the tutorial it opens my eyes in a few things,

Thank you for sharing!

Miquel
Barcelona

Well you can always zoom in even further by starting with a live action shot of someone from on top of a latter or something high. Then use this as the starting point and follow the rest of the tutorial.

Best,
AK

Pretty good stuff there Andrew. I made one too some time ago (check my website->demos), but I actually built it in 3d space. I don’t know why I did, but I think it worked out kinda ok. Could have been better though.

Thanks! Great tutorial, although the promised quality wasn’t there. I also missed the Big Dipper.

Nice stuff Ferdi, I really like the latest addition of the 3d photo…

I cant change the scale to 100, 100. when i type 100, it shows 166 for the other one.. wierd.

Hi Andrew,

This is really great. But how did you took those pictures? With Google Earth or something like that?

I’ll try to do it myself.

Thanks,

Jeffrey
Netherlands

Ferdi how did you do the picture 3d effect?!? Amazing

Hi Andrew!
Is it possible to save these sattelite pictures from google?
Or should i hit the print key and then paste it into a graphic program?

Thanks,

Kevin
Germany

not that you’ll ever read this last lil’ comment, but Dude… You are sick!!!! (that means you rock!) Much thanks!

I love it. Thanks. It uses all the basics its jjust i never would have thought of the technique!

Great tutorial Andrew, amazing I must say…keep them comming …

That’s a brilliant tutorial Andrew, one of the best yet. There’s a fishing store just down the road from me, gonna get myself pimped out with line later!

Woooohoooooooo!!!!!!!…..I love you Andrew. Incredible tutorial. Thx

Sadly I must report that my camera burn up on re-entry. No zoom to earth for me. ; )

Great demo, great humour. What I don’t understand is why you would give that one for free. Man, this one tutorial alone would sell any new training DVD.

Have you ever thought of setting up a donation button on your web page? I am sure tons of people would be happy to give. Picture this, Andrew Kramer, on the sidewalk of a busy street, creating tutorials with your hat on the sidewalk. I would throw money in the hat for what you do.

Thank you very much Andrew.

Fergi, really like your demo clips. I was going to write very professional but that would insinuate you’re an amateur and I know your not. Great idea with the 3D photos and precise use of sound.

Excellent work! Very professional results! great work man.

For some years, I’ve seen a LOT of tutorials from different applications, but I never seen tutorials of complex applications so well made and easy to follow. I can’t imagine what can Andrew do with Maya & 3DMax, where other “BIG” guys fail in teaching.

Excellent Work!!! I saw the rendered video on my big LCD screen and its like watching a movie.

Greetings from the Caribbean!
Eduardo

Dude youre awsome!

Greetings from Berlin, we love you !

Hello Andrew,

Great tutorial, I saw the visual fx comp on the Hollywood film “Enemy of the state” with Will Smith. Great way showing how it can be achieved in Adobe After Effcts Hollywood effects work on a desktop. Keep up the good work.

Leo

Hiiiiiiii Andrew , very nice tutorial & Very good man ,
Please i need tutorial for ” REViSiON_EFFECTS_REFLEX ”
i am sended message in cgtalke . tnx man

Yeah, i agree with Michel, you should realy put up a donation on this site:D

Andrew, for lining up the images, you can alternately use the difference mode. The camera shake is a nice touch.

Ferdi, your zoom is really nice. The blurred edges give it a really nice dreamy look.

Jim W.

Thanks Andrew for a great tutorial. Would it be possible for, at the end of the tutorial, using a hi-res image of Earth with Cycore’s Sphere plug-in so we can make it rotate? When I use Google Earth, it has the stupid google earth image and the compass embedded on the top and bottom of my image. Any way to overcome that?

Another great tutorial Andrew. Keep em coming, seriously. Each tutorial you have brings something new and incredibly useful to the table. Brilliant work…as usual!

Also, Here are some more map resources – I posted before, not sure if anyone noticed:

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/content.php?content=panoramas#
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world.html
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/earth.php

enjoy!

Fantastic tutorial!

And thats another nice tutorials from Andrew Kramer .
Really great tutorial, I’m going to try this out!

U R STAR …… fantastic
Thank you

Your tutorials make me excited besides that. It would be great if your did some 3ds max tutorials

The best tutorial that i’ve seen Andrew.

From London

Thanks yet AGAIN, Mr. Kramer. Your tutorials are just top notch and ALWAYS funny.

Awesome but i have one qusetion where i shoud find this high resolution images? any suggestions? :\

Awesome!! thanks again for this wonderfull tuts!!!!

you know very, you have as you to make a tutorial one in portuquês?

walla nice
thx for tut

Just Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

this is what i have done, it misses some blue atmosphere around it, it misses some darker area on 1 side, and it misses motion blur, but it is looking nice allready:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/eczqmh

guys, mr.Andrew gave u 4 links, maps.google is preety nice place to start from i got my footage from there, he got his footage allso from maps.google , but only a few towns has that kind of quality, San francisco is one of them

for big picture of Earth, just google it, i’ve found myne by google:

http://tinyurl.com/3x3jju

How did you get such great images with World Wind ??? I can barely see buildings!

LOVE U ANDREW jajaja, by the way, you`re really funny

thank you for the great tutorial.
can i ask you please to make a tutorial about how to make a lightening effect or electric current

thanks

thx man,
i like your work ,
Keep coming up !

I’ve tried Google Earth and World Wind. Google Earth gave the best pictures but it’s got sÃ¥ much stuff in the way, like the zoom thing and such. Does anyone know how to remove it, or how to take a good picture in Google Earth?

depends on the region. Not all areas in usa are available on high-res

Andrew, is there something else we can do for “exponential scale” if we don’t have the professional version? Would something else give a similar effect?

Great and very useful tutorial and insight into the power of AFX
and if anyone has a problem with Indiana Jones or Harrison Ford or Lucas & Spielberg for that matter will have to take it into the octagon

THX Andy

Andrew, you’re the man! I’ve tried to use the 3D method, but yours is way better and easier. Thanks, man!!!

Just excellent!

God Bless you Andrew! guys let appreciate andrew one more time for his endless effort in trying to make video co-pilot outstanding

great tutorials, quite comprehensive, much tricky, and SERIOUS CLASS THIS TIME!, my wife was wondering, ” is this kramer talking” we missed your humor…

community! i guess you guys are out on video co-pilot DVDs, thats is the best way to say THANK YOU to Kramer

I LIKE THIS SITE

tunslike

If we have ae standard what do we do about the zoom at the end?

Very incredible.
So where have you find the high resolution photo please?? And the final world too?

Congratulation, I’m in love to your website !!

Man you ROCK!

Very great tutorial!

Here’s my attempt:

http://www.felixbruns.de/tmp/earth.zoom.h264.mov

I like the beginning but the end is kinda crappy…
Images didn’t really match with the globe. And I forgot
to add a bit rotation but I don’t feel like rendering again,
even if it’s just about an hour with motion blur.

–Felix

AK, I went to the link for google maps and everythings all good except for saving the images out. How the heck do u take the images from the satelite and save them as jpegs onto your computer? it wont let me right click and “save as” as most sites let u because its flash. ???

@Bones: Just hit the print screen button and cut out the area you want. That’s how I did it.

Well i tryed to make it myself…
I just Google Earth downloaded the program got my screenshot by zoming into earth, print screen saved it then putted it into AE did every step but when it gots to like the 4 zoompaart it just got black totally black like something wasent there anymore, can someon help me???
Ow and btw i cant find images that look that sharp as AK used in his tutorials :s
If you wanna add me on msn and help me i would be so thankful
greetings
klootzak_knuffeltje@hotmail.com

Dude i m dying this was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awsome Andrew!!!!!!!!!!
Top class
Really enjoying the tutorials
Got three of your dvd’s and i love em

Thanks and keep up the great work !!!!!!!!!

Awesome tutorial! It’s amazing how quickly you’re able to create fantastic looking video and do so in a way that even relatively inexperienced users like myself can follow along with and duplicate!

You should have unrated versions of your tutorials with the jokes. That way we could state that we’re over 18 and watch the full hardcore rated R tutorials.

hi andrew

fantastic tutorial, very funny as allways, i hope you dont become a commedian, then ill have to find somone else to do tutorials.

one problem im finding is, getting high res images, i know you linked to a few sites, but could you say were exactly you got them?

kind regards

si
uk

Great tutorial Andrew! I’m trying to re-create this for an HD project, but I still don’t see how to download the size photographs that you got. I can save from Google Earth, but they’re about 1000×800 at most. So, once again, WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE HIGH REZ PHOTOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????? Please and thank you!

Great Tutorial, I’m loving my AE CS3 and you’re just making me love it even mor,e I just wanna get straight on and try out the tutorials.

Thanks for taking out your time to make these, they’re a big help for beginners like me.

Cheat. It doesnt look like the preview you gave us..
Anyway Fantastic Tutorial..

thanks felix!

Best tutorial yet! Very informative and enjoyable.

Thanks Andrew,
Peace.

Ty so much can’t wait to use it .Now if you could do a tutorial on the Star wars Scroll crawl.I would be most happy.

YES!!! I DID MINE!!! and THATS MY SCHOOL!!

too bad stupid YouTube compressed it and the stars didn’t show
up..

here’s the link!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9qWCXp0Ugk

Please watch it!!, I just turned 16 and I got my
iMac 24″ with 2 gigs ram…I’m surprised that I did
this thing with After Effects 6.5 and rendered pretty fast with
the right settings..took me an hour just to render it with
proper settings and stuff…but when I saved it as a preset
it rendered in like 4 minutes…good..good..

haha, and I used Yahoo maps…you gotta be a genious like me to
know how to take the ads and writing out of the pictures…

just kidding, I just zoomed in really close on the first picture (closest)
then all the other pictures, I just cropped out all the writing with
the pen tool, and it seemed to work fine. I didn’t have to do anything
with Photoshop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9qWCXp0Ugk

very cool, glad i’m starting to think on the same page as you in making these graphics!

I’m from brazil.

This tutorial is fantastic!!!!!! thank you or how do you say in Brazilian: Obrigado!!!!! take care!!!!

Could you have used the Difference matte to check to see if the layer over the next layer lined up perfectly?

I forgot to ask – where the heck do you get such great satellite images? Google earth doesn’t have that sort of high res. imagery…?

Hi I dont know what could be wrong, I have Fplayer 9 installed and can not see the most of the last tutorials

I refresh the page to reloaded and same issue

it is something missing I have to do?

thanks

its killing me not to know exactly where you got those pictures.

I used Yahoo Maps and mine came out great!
Well the YouTube compression messed around with..

http://youtube.com/watch?v=o9qWCXp0Ugk

http://youtube.com/watch?v=o9qWCXp0Ugk

great one, we are going to translate it right away in french! ^^

Thanks Adrew i was waiting for this lesson and i need at
you are the best

Regards
Failakawe

Oh my god.. please somebody help us or tell us where to find this high resolution pictures i try many things like google earth and some other programs.. etc.. but quality is terrible

DEAR ,Felix Bruns

I like your zoom try!!
I live in holland so the maps are almost the same for me. Can you email me the maps you used, and the beautiful rounded earth ,PLEASE.
Or let me know where you get it….

Andrew,
You rock!

PLEAE READ!

Google Maps has the satellite imagery, use the print screen to take a picture at various zoom levels and use them as described in the tutorial.

They are not available for every location. Read some of the replies for other helpful links or do a search.

San Fransisco is a big city so the imagery looked good and that is what I used it. Not every location will have such nice imagery. Do your best with what you can find.

Thanks-

Hi, do you think that if I use google maps for a job, they will get me in jail?? Really, they would have to search the complete surface of the earth hahaha! I really don’t know anywhere else to find this kind of pictures, and I don’t think that any other will let me use their pictures(?)
Damn, I wonder how they do it in Hollywood.

Also, there’s © Google all over the image. I once did a earth zoom, and I used google earth, wich works also good(you even have the option to export high-res images).

Thank You !!!!!!!!
I love you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are the BEST !!!!!!

I am your fan number one.(Soy tu fan numero uno)
You are the best.(Eres el mejor)
Thank you very much.Muchas gracias
Best wishes from Spain.(Los mejores deseos desde España)

Listen to Andrew people…read his reply above..

Andrew – one day you should write a blog about how long it takes you to discover all these cool tecnhiques. All the times you have to get things wrong before you get them right. How many lonely hours you have to spend staring at pixels. Maybe it’d be a tad self-indulgent, but then this is your site, and many of us would be interested, and I think we’d probably appreciate your work even more.

This was an epic tutorial. Well done, amigo. Thanks for teaching an ignorant Brit how to maximise AF’s. I’ve learnt more in a 22-minute tutorial than I ever did in university studying film.

Great tutorial!

Although I do have a little problem.. Got about 20 layers, all parented. When finally ‘unparenting’, and parenting all the layers to layer 1, they become invincible. Changing the size of layer 1 will show me layer one, the rest is gone.

Parenting all the layers to the last layer does work. Problem is, like you stated in the tutorial, you can change the size value to hundreds of thousands, but it will zoom minimal.

Could it be because I used different sizes of images? (used googles maps for the first 10, then the other ones from nasa, but they have a different resolution).

In a simple test with just the 10 images it worked great..
Thanks!

@MNI:

Just go to http://maps.google.com (Go into your browsers full screen
mode, and close the side panel). Then it’s really easy to take some
screen captures.

For the earth map: http://www.felixbruns.de/tmp/earthmap10k.reduced.jpg (Or search for
‘earthmap10k’ on Google). I just pre-composed this with an additional
animated cloud layer and then applied the ‘CC Sphere’ effect.

–Felix

Omg Andrew!
I rarley write a comment in blogs and forums like this… But this tutorial was the best! Thank you!!!

The other tutorials you have made rocks too, I salute you.

-Fredrik

Great!!
Thank you!! Andrew!!
Caê from Brasil

I love the video, however when i tried this myself using layers for my area, but when i got to the bit where you adjust the scale of the first pic to 100, for some reason it would only zoom out as far as pic 2 and then it would come back in again. I couldn’t get it to zoom right out to space. What am i doing wrong? I copied the tutorial bit by bit, but can’t get the zoom to go further than pic 2

men i just saw this last night and its amazing, i have always wanted to know how to do a earth zoom believe me this is one of the best tutorials i have see in a while.
thanks again man and keep them coming.

THIS IS MY VERSION, FROM A BUILDING IN NEW YORK CITY.

http://www.artisdesign.se/earthzoom.mov

I don’t have the pro version so I didn’t get the perfect outzoom. But I think I worked it out pretty well anyway. Made my own curb between the outzoom keyframes in the graph. Thanks for the tutorial. see you.

This is damn awesome! Where do you get your ideas from??

andrew your great!
mi inglish is too bad, im live in argentina sudamerica…

thank you for this great tutorial

cia

@Dave: You need to enter a very small value (0,0005 like Andrew did). Do not drag to zoom, enter int manually.

I am going to have to try and find more detailed images. I want to start from an ACTOR walking along a street and zoom back out. With Yahoo and Google, that is hard to do because they are not hi-res images and they are pretty far away from the earth even a the most zoomed-in point.

WOWWWWW !!!

Awesome !

thanks from Thailand

You know what would make this even more realistic? By not making the stars zoom by. I mean, the stars arent right next to the eart, so we shouldnt be seeing any motion blur on them (except for the rotation maybe..). And they shouldn’t move at all.

By making them look like they are far away, you get a little more “3D effect” feel over it as well.

hej…i have got a problem…how can i save the images by google maps…i’ve got the satelite view and then i don’t know where i can save my image….PLS help me

Awesome stuff! Guess I have to work on your tips about attaching camera on a weather baloon to get a start with live motion, or “from the face, through the window and up to the universe shot”
Maybe I’ve missed it in upper posts… so what comes next week???

This is great stuff…can’t wait to see more. Andrew thanks i always learn alot from these great tutorials.

Hey Ferdi, how did you that amazing 3d photo effect? Did u used the 3d projection tehnique or did u cut the layers in photoshop, or how? I need that same effect for a project and I came out with something similar using AE and 3d max camera mapping but I doesnt look that realistic. It would be nice if u could share some tips.

Andrew..u did it again man. One of my favorites. I trying to merge this with some real live footage to create something interesting..still working on it, but I’ll post a link if I can get it right..

havent tryed yet but i bet you could make some nice zooms with Xrez.com

Hey Ben, that site is awesome… If anyone decides to use this tutorial to make a zoom effect using Xrez.com I’d love to see it!

Thank you

excellent!

Andrew does it again!!.. he really has some inspiring tutorials that keep me working with and learning about After Effects. Thank you for spending your own time making these and free for everyone to see!!.

absolutly great!!!!!! Thats Andrew Kramer at its best.

great work man
I tried using the balloon and camera first but it rained.

Thanks for the substitute

Here Is my video going up from my house. I remember someone saying something about adding a satellite on the way up, so in my video I added a satellite and edited it the same way as the clouds where done. I was thinking of adding a 747 but thought it would be way too much to see in the few seconds everything is moving. So here it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q916sMKO2A

Thanks Andrew, one more time you rock!