Create Stars in After Effects
Philip Ebiner
Lessons
Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates
06:22 2Understand the After Effects Workspace
05:39 3Starting a New Composition
08:15 4CC 2018 Update - Starting a New Composition from Footage
01:55 5Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline
05:08 6Using the Basic After Effects Tools
10:20Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors
03:04 8Working in the Timeline
10:59 9Layer Properties
08:57 10Quiz: After Effects Basics
11Animating in After Effects
07:35 12Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations
05:17 13Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral
04:21 14Using the Graph Editor
05:32 15Challenge - Bouncing Ball
01:01 16Solution - Bouncing Ball
13:00 17Quiz: Animating with Keyframes
18Working with Solid Layers and the Ken Burns Effects
07:07 19Working with Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths
06:24 20Adding Layer Styles like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients
03:44 21Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag
05:54 22Quiz: Shapes and Solid Layers
23Track Matte Animations - Make Layers Appear and Disappear
08:37 24Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers
05:34 25Easily Reverse Complicated Animations
02:14 26Playing with Time
05:54 27Blend Modes
06:05 28Stabilize Shaky Footage
04:04 29CC 2018 Update - Previewing and Favoriting Fonts
00:46 30CC 2019 Update - Responsive Design Time
03:36 31CC 2019 Content Aware Fill
03:55 32CC 2019 Create Motion Graphic Templates
08:37 33Quiz: Important After Effects Skills
34Intro to Motion Graphics Projects
00:53 35Clean Lower Third
09:22 36Logo Reveal Animation Bumper
13:25 37Colorful Transition
16:59 38Text with Mask Path Animation
10:05 39Text Bubble Animation
13:39 40Weather App 1
16:41 41Weather App 2
08:21 42Weather App 3
06:59 43Quiz: Motion Graphics Projects
44Flat Animation Challenge
02:47 45Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene
01:23 46Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect
15:02 47Removing Green Screen Background
06:46 48Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground
07:55 49Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool
06:26 50Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect
06:07 51Quiz: Flat Animation Challenge
52Intro to 3D
10:04 53Swinging 3D Text Animation
12:11 54Build Out Your 3D Composition
05:47 55Animating Our 3D Scene
07:38 56Create Stars in After Effects
05:11 57Quiz: Green Screen (Chromakeying)
58Using the Rotoscope Tool
06:55 59Cleaning Up Your Edges
07:21 60Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation
07:33 61Quiz: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool
62Easy Screen Replacement with Masks
09:56 63Replacing a Screen Version 2
13:49 64Screen Replacement with Mocha
07:13 65CC 2019 Update - Native Mocha AE Plugin
05:08 66Quiz: Rotoscoping
67Using the Puppet Pin Tool
04:33 68Animating Your Puppet Pins
03:04 69Animated Blinking Eyes
08:21 70Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds
07:10 71CC 2018 Update - Advanced Puppet Pin Tool
02:08 72Quiz: Screen Replacements
73Applying Text Animation Presets
05:59 74Create a Page Turn Effect with CC Page Turn
10:05 75Radial and Linear Wipes
03:20 76Color Correction in After Effects
03:33 77CC 2019 Update - Selective Color Adjustments
03:25 78Quiz: Puppet Tool Animations
79Motion Tracking Basics
09:51 80Tracking Text and Visual Effects to Video Clip
06:21 81Tracking Rotation and Scale
11:33 82Adding Details to Our Text
04:04 83Quiz: Motion Tracking
84Intro to Character Animations
01:31 85Design Your Character
14:32 86Rigging Your Character
02:50 87Animating Our Character
09:55 88Adding the Animated Background
09:12 89Adding Details to Character Movement
06:46 90Adding the Paper Cut Out Look
05:29 91Quiz: Character Animations
92Exporting an H264 File from After Effects
07:03 93Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background
04:03 94Exporting from After Effects through Adobe Media Encoder
04:40 95CC 2018 Update - Exporting an Animated GIF from Adobe Media Encoder
02:14 96Create an Animated GIF from After Effects CC 2017
07:03 97Audio Tips for After Effects
02:19 98Working with Premiere Pro
05:54 99Quiz: After Effects Workflow & Tips
100Expressions Basics
07:24 101Animate a Flickering Light with Expressions
17:35 102Quiz: Expressions
103Conclusion
00:44 104Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Create Stars in After Effects
we have our spacing but it still looks a little bare and that's because we don't have any stars. Of course we need some stars to create stars. We're going to use a solid layer and an effect. So go create layer new solid and make it white. And I don't know if you remember this but a while ago when we were learning about solids, I talked about using them with effects and this is an example. Find the Sisi star burst effect in your effects and presets and drag it onto your white solid automatically the solid turns into this sort of star like field with all these little circles. But if you play through it you can see that the stars are actually moving. So if I turn off all these other layers, play through this. You know this is a cool effect in itself but I actually don't want our stars to be moving because we already have a camera move that will make it look like we're moving in space. So there are some settings that we want to play around with one is the speed. So I'm going to set the spe...
ed to zero. So now these dots just stay still the next. I want them to be smaller. So with the size I'm just gonna make them really small, Something like 20, it doesn't even let you go below 20 but 20 is perfect. Next I'm going to put this behind all of our other layers. Now this is cool but if I play through this it doesn't necessarily look that good because the stars would probably be moving a bit while we're zooming out from the sun. So what we can do is just a quick scale animation. So bring up the scale for this solid At the end we will set it to 100%. And then at the beginning we'll make it like 120 or so. And by doing that it looks like it's shrinking or it looks like you're sort of zooming out. There's a different way. We could have done this by putting it in three D. Space which will show you in just a second. But just that simple scale animation I think looks fine. So let's actually delete that key frame that both of those key frames and turn on three D. For this layer, you'll notice when I do that it disappears and that's because it won't be seen until at the very end when we see the Earth because it's on the same sort of plain as the Earth have the same point in Z. Space. So if we bring up our position for the Earth and for our white solid which I'll rename stars. Well see we're at zero Z. Space, we want our stars to be behind the sun. So if I go forward or even if I stay at the end and I drag this down or if I type in behind the sun which is what 20,000. So let's just put it at 21,000. So it's behind the sun but now we don't see it. If we go to the start of the composition we see it but at the end it's so small it's only stars in this little rectangle. So let's bring up the scale, press s to bring up scale, drag it up all the way until it's filling the complete frame at the end of our scene. So now you have your stars and you can see them from the beginning to the end of the composition. Both ways looked pretty good. I actually liked the first way that I added the subtle motion with the scale animation just because the stars are a lot further back than the sun and I'd want them to look like it's animating a little bit different. Here are both options. Here is the one with the original scale animation. I like the subtlety of it. There's not too much motion even when we're zoomed in on the sun we know those other stars are really, really far away and so they should be moving more slowly compared to the other option which we did with the three D. Layer. There's no right or wrong and you can kind of see which way you like better. But this is also a good example of how you can use both three D layers and non three D layers in a single composition. And just to clarify. So if I have the other stars, the non three D. Stars, The 3D layer, this layer doesn't get affected by the camera motion at all. What's being animated is the scale with key frames, but none of the other camera animations with the null object or anything will affect what this layer looks like. Only layers that are enabled for three D are affected by that. Alright. I hope you liked this section of the course about three D animations. Now you can use these techniques and all of your other motion graphics and projects. We will be diving into using lights and building out even more advanced 3D compositions in a future lesson. But for now, you know the basics and we're going to move on to some other effects that are important and just kind of understanding how you can work with more effects from the effects and presets tab. Thanks for watching and have a great day.
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