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Planet Earth, the place where we live, sleep, eat & design ;)
Ever wondered how to do Planet earth in After Effects? Easy... just follow my tutorial and you will see it's sooooo easy.. as a goodie I will show you also how to remove the ocean and create a grid for simulating the longitude lines.
- Step 1
First of all we need to get a decent picture of our planet, I've found this page months ago as I was searching for something similar. BOOKMARK IT!! you never know when you need it again. NASA - BLUE MARBLE
I've downloaded the 2048x1024 TIF picture, that should be enough for our current project. If the page is down for whatever reason, you can download the Picture I've used HERE
- Step 2
Let's get down to this now, you will be amazed how fast you will be finished :D
- Create a new composition, in our case 320x240 with a length of 5sec.
- Import our Earth_map.tif. After effects will ask you what you want to do with the Alpha Channel, just click on Ignore and go on with it.
(After Effects asks you that because the alpha channel doesn't have any name)
- Ok, now just Drag&Drop your map to the timeline, you will notice that your map is far too big for your comp, but hey don't panic.
- Select the newly created layer and apply the CC Sphere Effect (Effect - Perspective - CC Sphere)
- Adjust the settings of the effect so that you can see the whole sphere on your composition. I've used a radius of 110.
Ever wondered how to do Planet earth in After Effects? Easy... just follow my tutorial and you will see it's sooooo easy.. as a goodie I will show you also how to remove the ocean and create a grid for simulating the longitude lines.
- Step 1
First of all we need to get a decent picture of our planet, I've found this page months ago as I was searching for something similar. BOOKMARK IT!! you never know when you need it again. NASA - BLUE MARBLE
I've downloaded the 2048x1024 TIF picture, that should be enough for our current project. If the page is down for whatever reason, you can download the Picture I've used HERE
- Step 2
Let's get down to this now, you will be amazed how fast you will be finished :D
- Create a new composition, in our case 320x240 with a length of 5sec.
- Import our Earth_map.tif. After effects will ask you what you want to do with the Alpha Channel, just click on Ignore and go on with it.
(After Effects asks you that because the alpha channel doesn't have any name)
- Ok, now just Drag&Drop your map to the timeline, you will notice that your map is far too big for your comp, but hey don't panic.
- Select the newly created layer and apply the CC Sphere Effect (Effect - Perspective - CC Sphere)
- Adjust the settings of the effect so that you can see the whole sphere on your composition. I've used a radius of 110.
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