SPACE EFFECTS COLLECTION
For Adobe After Effects
What is it?
Space Effects Collection allows you to make out-of-this-world space animations in Adobe After Effects. This template includes a galaxy and all the major celestial bodies of our solar system. The effects are ready to go - just animate your 3D camera to move through space, and it's ready to render. The look of your scene can be customized with easy-to-use slider controls.
For the editor on a deadline, there are six ready-made, customizable title animations, and 15 basic fly-by animations, covering all the celestial bodies. Just export and you're done!
Create 3D space animations with all the bodies of our solar system!
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12 Celestial Bodies – Individual comps containing the earth, moon, sun, galaxy, solar system, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter (with Europa), Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Each planet has a custom atmosphere, and each comp features a sun and star background.
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Easy Customization – Customize your scene with easy-to-use slider controls. Adjust your planet’s size, tilt, rotation speed, rings, atmosphere, and lighting. Choose from multiple star, nebula, or galaxy backgrounds.
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Camera & Light Interaction – Pre-programmed lighting allows for camera and light interaction like a true 3D program. Change the 3D position of your sun, and the light and shadows on your planet adjusts accordingly. Likewise, orbit your camera around, and the lighting updates realistically.
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Lens Flares – Five customizable lens flares, taken from the Creation Lens Flares template. Attach a lens flare to your sun, and customize it using slider controls.
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Custom Title Animations – Six animations featuring 3D text, displayed throughout the solar system (as seen in the preview video). A 7th comp combines all the title animations into one seamless 50-second animation. Customizing the titles is a snap.
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Finished Space Animations – 15 additional comps covering the individual celestial bodies. These comps are ready-to-export, complete with camera motion, lens flares, and unique backgrounds. Every animation from the demo video is included. It’s 15 stock footage clips for the price of one!
Features
This video takes you through the entire template and shows you how to make a basic fly-by animation.
Examples of what can be made with this template
(Refer to the main preview video at the top of the page to see which space animations are included in the template.)
Need to Know
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This template is compatible with Adobe After Effects, version CS5 and all later versions. Works on both PCs and Macs. No plugins required.
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Comps are HD, 1920x1080. Some elements or effects may not work properly when converted to 4K or other resolutions.
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Planets use high-resolution texture maps to create their surface. Earth has three land texture maps to choose from - 1) a bright, colorful map, 2) a darker, more realistic map, and 3) a nighttime map showing lights from urban areas. The nighttime map is in the main comp and turned off by default. Just turn the layer on to overlay the lights over your daytime texture. All land maps are without clouds. The clouds use a separate map, so their rotation can be separate from the land, if desired.
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Texture maps are 4000x2000 pixels (8 MP). Additional comps using higher-resolution (32 MP) maps are included for Earth and Mars, allowing for even more detailed close-ups. With the 32 MP Earth comp, you can zoom in on a large country, like the USA, and maintain resolution.
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Jupiter has automatic atmospheric evolution - i.e., the swirling of storms and warping of clouds. These warping effects are optional.
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The galaxy uses a combination of particles and an photo texture map. There are two photo textures to choose from. In addition to the constant rotation of the galaxy, the image texture also has a swirling effect, so the center of the galaxy is twirling faster than the outer sides of the galaxy.
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Each celestial body is inside its own individual comp. The "Solar System" comp contains all the celestial bodies, and allows you to easily customize each planet's orbit position and orbit speed.
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"Space Music" (heard in the preview video) is included.
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This template has been "universalized", so it will work in After Effects running in any language.
The Space Effects Collection template is not a plugin, so there is nothing to install. Rather, it's an Adobe After Effects project file, commonly known as a "template" because most of the work is already done and the user needs only to make their own customizations. This template is compatible with version CS5 as well as all later versions of After Effects.
Space Effects Collection contains copyrighted intellectual property. The animations you create with this product are 100% yours and can be used for commercial purposes, but the sharing or online posting of project files with or for anyone other than a client is prohibited. See the Terms and Conditions for more details.
Texture maps and space images courtesy of NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the USGS. For more great public domain space images, search the JPL image gallery.
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