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• Add 3D control to earth inside After Effects
• Use simple expressions to CC sphere plug-in
 
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88 RESPONSES TO "THE BLUE PLANET IN 3D"

by Tom Reynolds 11/03/2009
ANDREW IS THERE A WAY OF KEYFRAMMING THE ORBIT TOOL. BECAUSE I WANT TO CREATE AN ANIMATION LOOKING LIKE THE CAMERA IS FLYING A FEW DEGREES AROUND THE EARTH INSTEAD OF THE OBJECTS MOVING. NOW ITS A 3D SHAPE CAN THIS BE DONE? AND CAN THE SUN BEHIND BE DONE TOO?

love the tutorials Andrew and good luck with the Killer Bitch movie, i might be editing the trailer so might see you soon.
by mango 10/07/2009
Thanks Andrew.
by ARUN 10/01/2009
Hi
Its very fantastic.Thanks....................
by zonic 09/19/2009
For me the tutorial, as the rest, doesn't work :/ Says that I do not have the permission to watch it...
by jinoo 08/27/2009
andrew you are awsome!

show me some more about C4d shit!
by DarkEntity 07/14/2009
WOOW>..i got interested with AE bec of your very interesting tuts.no dull moments.i like your sense of humor...you're the best.-from Philippines
by JSpraya 07/12/2009
Nice effect but to keep it more realistic the back ground stars wouldn't move around like that since there light years away right ?
ah good stuff anyway Next Month I think im gonna buy The Bullet and Twitch or maybe something else
by Liam 06/26/2009
Thx so much for your tutorials. They're helping me a great deal in a Star Trek fan film I'm making
by Charles 06/25/2009
Question. how do u make the earth continue to rotate. say i wanted to take the earth and put in another video and have it continue to rotate for a long period of time
by ramkandel 06/09/2009
hey u have a good tutoral,,, fine
from nepal
by Brandon Bates 06/04/2009
This was a great tutorial. Thanks for showing me how to take it to the next level.
by ramkandel 05/30/2009
Excellent sir. Wonderful tutorial.this time is animaton,,,,,,,,,,,,,
by shamshuddin pathan 05/01/2009
hi andrew,
how r u. your tutorial is so helpful,
we need it.pls bring some more exciting tutorials. thanksssssss.
by Thomas 04/20/2009
You have great tutorials and I learned a lot. Now I am making action films and these tutorials helped me. Thanks.

Thomas from Slovakia
by Alexander in Great Britain 04/19/2009
What a tutorial! Great stuff Andrew! xx
by Shimoda 03/06/2009
Andrew! Help! I have no "orient towards camera" in Auto-Orientation menu. Why?
Sory, my bed lenguage. I from Ukraine)
by steveyburns 03/04/2009
TheUberNoob how did you get it to work ?
by sumon (DilSe) 02/24/2009
Andrew Kramer......
Nice hearted man.......
The videos look great...... and u r great....
at the end of this video, the was great..... i like this....... guitar
by quan 02/24/2009
what do you mean by "turn these layers back to 3D"? They already were 3D and then there was a cut and suddenly they were not 3D. What happened in the mean time?
by TheUberNoob 02/21/2009
I finally got it to work with CS4! :)
by nolllllloooooo 02/20/2009
wow nice
by steveyburns 02/14/2009
Indeed, I am using CS4, and it accepts the expression, but when i use camera orbit tool, the earth gets all messed up.
by Graham 02/10/2009
This expression doesn't seem to work in CS4
by Julien 02/08/2009
Hi , Andrew , thanks for this very interesting tutorial, i learn very much with your works here, both in post production techniques and in humoristic techniques .
I have a problem in one of my projects in which i use a fake 3d planet. i use a particular stroke making an impact on the earth, but my camera is moving aroud. So, the impact spot is moving and creating an ugly stuff. Would you have any idea to correct or avoid this? Do you recommend me to use a 3d software?
i send you the link to this work : www.julienstecken.com/dassault.mov

have a good day
julien
by Roberto 02/05/2009
incredible....thx god there are smart people on earth.not only #%&!heads!
by Silva Brazil 01/26/2009
Andrew congratulations we's in neer love you!
by Durval Jr. 01/25/2009
Amazing Andrew !!

No words to describe
by bruno 01/10/2009
But, its a problem there, when the camera rotate around the planet, the cc sphere's lights rotate with the camera.
It's no visual diference rotate around the planet / the planet rotate on its own axis.

how do I if I want to rich the dark side of the earth without animating the cc sphere's light?

REALY SORRY ABOUT MY BAD BAD ENGLISH.


by aaron 01/10/2009
nice tutorial

how did you get the camera to rotate around the Planet
by joeymaceda 01/04/2009
Actually, when your done with everything, you can add another effect to make it more 3d. Effect>Distort>Spherize. Then the center point should be in the dead middle of the earth then increase the radius until it looks more real.
-Joey
and thank you andrew for your awesome tuts
by Fazal Dalwai 12/21/2008
hey i watch ur titor.very very nce.i bt i am upset thats i cant download.
by TimeKoder13 12/12/2008
Thx Andrew
by jamie 11/23/2008
once again andrew kramer manages to make
a great tut
nice work andy
by ramkandel 11/17/2008
hey,,,,,,
i am suprise... i think animation time start now !!!!!!!!!!!!
by Dennis 10/26/2008
Nice tutorial, one more thing though;

Maybe add value behind the script so you can rotate the world when your camera isn't rotating.

lookAt(thisComp.activeCamera.position,position)[0] value

And is there a way to get the light scripted?? So when you go around the world the "sun" keeps lighting the same part of the world when flying around it with a cam?

Because keyframing the light is kind of hard, its not like a simple 360 on the y-ax, its rotating on the z-ax... So someone knows something for this??

Tnx

by praful vyas 10/05/2008
Andrew ur really great. man i m jealous of ur ART THANKS
by yassine 09/28/2008
tannks very matsh for tutorial kramer you are the best tanks
by Alfie 09/14/2008
A million thanks to Mr. Kramer and Team! Because of you guys, my usage of my adobe after effects has never been fun and useful than before.

- From Philippines with love.
by Omonisha 09/12/2008
Excellent bro. Wonderful tutorial. I tried to install the cc sphere presets as you guide but it's not showing up in AE. Plz Help.

by Morgan Creepland 09/01/2008
Not that this was not a great follow up to the "Blue Planet" tutorial cuz it was! I love how you helped us 'space heads' by taking it up a notch! My thing is, why not up it one mo' time? How about showing us how to have a 3D solar system to fly tru too? We don't have to have anymore than 1 more planet. The thing is how to make star-space move around the planets the right way. If anybody feels me on this make some noise by asking for "3D Solar System". Think about it Andrew. I tried to do it on my own but since this is my first month with AE, God still has me beat on the creation thing...
by dd 08/23/2008
this efect help me lot ts
by ROMAN CASTOR 08/15/2008
ANDREW !!!!! REALMENTE EXTRAORDINARIO ESTOS TUTORIALES ME AN ABIERTO MUCHO EL PANORAMA DE DEL DISEÑO VISUAL ,
POR FAVOR COMO PUEDO COMPRAR DVD,S Y CUANTO TARDAN EN ENVIARLOS MEXICO D.F
by Animarca 08/15/2008
Hey, does anyone know how to aply the same effect to a full 360 FILMED rotation of an object. So I get it to always face camera, but I want the time remapping to react to the rotation of the camera so that it always show the specific frame according to the rotation of the camera.... I don?t know if that makes any sense to you guys, but I guess there must be someone out there who might know the answer to this one...
by el_cerv 08/03/2008
thanks, honestly i got interested in AE when i saw your tutorials..thank you very dear sir andrew... two thumbs up for you i mean twenty thumbs up for you...

Philippines
by jerome lewis 06/05/2008
SWEET!! THNX THOMAS!!
by Thomas 06/04/2008
Jerome Lewis;
You wrote :
lookAt(thisComp.activeCamera.position,position)(0)
But its;
lookAt(thisComp.activeCamera.position,position)[0]
By the way, nice tutorial! Usefull!
by jerome lewis 06/03/2008
hey andrew,
im having a problem with the tutorial
everytime i type :
lookAt(thisComp.activeCamera.position,position)(0)
i get an error message...please help what am i doing wrong?
by fatih 05/07/2008
I dont know what I say, Andrew, I wish you will be more and more rich:) We appreciate you dude.

Best feelings from Turkiye.

by djw 04/25/2008
wow gotta be the best effect ever
by Farhan Ahmed 04/08/2008
Hi , its wonderfull m really fan of your Andrew m really really impress with your creativity infact i watch every tutorial you have a great personality wish you good luck dear.
by Silvia 03/23/2008
Hello all right?
I am trying to do the effects that this teaching but it should point to the Windows Vista that I am using, and that I hoped we can help install the After Effects given to the effects that are shown in the videos!
Know of any sait that can help?
And forgive any errors that might be in the text is that I am Portuguese
I await the answer!
by chiz 03/10/2008
this is great! Frankly, I was like , awed, when the whole earth started going 3d.....
by Victor Niglio 02/21/2008
THANK YOU! I was trying to do a re-creation of Universal's newest logo (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gr2DAGkQdjU&feature=related), and I had created a planet, but had no way to scroll around it.

Andrew Kramer = win
by Ricardo Adriano Mantovani 01/04/2008
Andrew Kramer, you is the face! Congratulations, I am learning very with you.
by tomaszysko 12/25/2007
fantastic!!! so useful, thanks a lot!
best wishes from poland
by saul 12/19/2007
wooowwwwwwwww increible men estoy maravillado la verdad este es el mejor sitio del after y tu eres el mas capisimo ...... XD

saludos desde Bolivia ;D...........
by Greg 12/18/2007
Daniel, pay close attention to the capitalization when typing expressions, it's very important in javascript. It should be thisComp, activeCamera, and position, not thiscomp, ActiveCamera, and Position, as you typed in your comment.
by Daniel 12/13/2007
Great Tutorial but I have run into a problem, When I enter lookAt(thiscomp.ActiveCamera.Position,Position)[0] I recieve a error message saying class layer has no method or property named thiscomp. I was just wondering what Im doing wrong. Thanks
by Raphael 11/29/2007
Awsome super i did'nt like it i loved it
by Jean VIta 11/23/2007
Hey Andrew, congratulations!

Yours tutorial are pretty cool, I learned many things about AE program with you.

Thanks.

Excuse my english, he is worst.
From Santo André, São Paulo, Braxil
by jaimy 11/19/2007
really great man !
by error 11/19/2007
if i try this (layer>new>camera) i get an error, i have 7.0 PRO this is the error: http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/4940/naamlooswb8.jpg


please help

by Lex 11/18/2007
Unreal...

You rock Andrew, your site really helps alot of good people gather skills essential to working in multi-media.

THANK YOU!
by Grunger Boy 11/13/2007
great !! No comment
by ErykFear 11/12/2007
and as to make planete with the sun and in 3D that as I turn over planete the this sun also spectators in 3D??
by Guilherme Lopes 11/08/2007
Great tutorial !! I'm starting with After effects and this will be very usefull... NICE Job dude ;)



From Brazil :D
by shen hui 11/08/2007
学无止境啊 thanks your tutorial, i will try it,
Although i cant understand english completely,
but i acquire some content. thank you .

shenhui Wuhan China
by Fred Castro 11/06/2007
man this guy is a total saint, angel whatever.

you saved my life man! and i bet you've been saving a lot of guys out there working with AE and CG. congratulations, keep up the GREAT work.

Regards,

FRED
by Jon 10/30/2007
Great effect. Really opens my mind as to what is really possible. Keep the tutorials coming.
by ewol 10/25/2007
GREAT men! Thanks>>>>>from Manila Philippines!
by Rapture 10/23/2007
Ogame style :D

grats Andrew ^^ nice tut
by joel 10/19/2007
hey andrew that was cool. Your tutorials rock. But I have a question that maybe you can answer for me. email me please
by chatensekz 10/18/2007
grabe galing mo idolo ka namin dito!
(Ur d best ur our idol)
from philippines
by david suñol 10/17/2007
GREAT but my english is very poor :( VISCA EL BARÇA i els pits de la Saraymala
by 015206978290 10/14/2007
thomas
by perez 10/11/2007
hye andrew kramer..ur toturial is the best . and easy to learn. i hope u can add more toturial AE soon .

perez
from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
by Eliot 09/28/2007
Very Nice! Very nice indeed
by junos norway 09/26/2007
vææældi bra detta kramer
by Carlos Bloise 09/26/2007
Andrew... congratulations...
u can post some thing about motion camera vanishing effect...
by Joris Strickx 09/25/2007
Cool, didn't see this one yet. It's a nice addition to the main tutorial.
by Silvio 09/24/2007
Muto bom esse tutorial
by Rubberdog 09/19/2007
Awesome...thanks you have opened a new world of animation for me.....love the new site

Peace and Love
by khalid 09/19/2007
It's very nice
by Roberto 09/19/2007
Wow... great web, great tutorials... Congratulations Andrew :D... and thanks :D

From Argentina
by Rodrigo Cavalcante 09/18/2007
Awesome Tutorial!
:D
by SmiR POLAND 09/17/2007
great!!!! new web site is awesome!!!
by DesignBrazil 09/17/2007
Great!!!!! congratulations!!! sorry, but i'm learning your language...
by Rafael Ranzolin 09/17/2007
Wow nice effect i'll try do it here xD

thx ;>

From Brazil... =D
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