Simple Shape Orbits - Adobe After Effects tutorial
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- Fake 3d orbits. What's the difference between a sphere and a circle anyway? It renders fast, sets up in seconds, and so long as you don't need shading, it's good enough for a particle sprite! It's simple shape orbits in under 5 minutes! Airhorn noise!
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IF YOU GET STUCK AT @3:19 put the anchor point onto the orbitter!!!
jared lamar thanks you helped me alot :)
i was struggling with that! Thanks dude!
Just got stuck there and then read your comment. :)
are you talking about where he sets it to Auto Orient to Camera?
You may have missed the shortcut he used for that: Ctrl + Alt + O (thats a letter oh, not a zero), (on PC -- forget which key combo on mac )
or navigate through the menu: Layer > Transform > Auto Orient
Thanx a lot!!!
This is crazy you just uploaded this, I was just looking for this effect last night! Perfect!
"The Secret" works. Proof right here.
Thank you abundantly for the tutorial! Short, simple, & to the point!😃🙏
I recently discovered your channel and boy, am I glad I did! Great tutorials. Just great.
I have this feeling in the previous video that this will have its own tutorial.
Quality content as always :D
Loving the pattern series, please do more :)
I have been search for this for a week everywhere. Thanks man!!
Man, this is so useful! I've never thought about it. Thanks, as always!
Great tutorial. No messing around. Thank you
This is a great trick to have in the bag. Thank you Evan!
Just another person saying thank you so much for the easy explanation. It really helped me out of a potential jam.
Donated and downloaded! Thank you so much. Saved my client!
As always, another cool tutorial. Thank you very much.
Sense of humor and simplicity made me subscribe.
I often feel like I'm orbiting around ECAbrams videos...
Wow EC, that's surprisingly simple. I'll be using that one for sure. Thank you!
"Surprisingly Simple", title of my autobiography
I've been binge watching your tutorials and I love all of them and your voice and when it goes off and be squeaky lols
Thanks. Glad people like my weird voice.
As always, great job! You make some of the best, if not the best, AE MG tutorials.
Well, thank you very much for saying so.
Amazing as always ECA
Been loving all the new videos!
Thanks a bunch, Evan! That was indeed a nifty trick and I made use of it right away. Btw, an object in an orbit is called a satellite. :-) Looking forward to more tips and technique as we float in the deep space of mograph. .-0
Great stuff again Mr Abrams!
best ae Tuts Online Ever watched >>thanks Evan :D
Amazing! Fast tutorials are the best!
You’re the best. Thanks for making tutorials!
this is the tuts which I'm too scared to ask. Nice tuts!
As always, great job!
This is so simple, but so cool!
wooo you made it effortless...thanks for sharing :)
Thanks for the tutorial! Very useful!
Just what I was looking for, thanks!
wow, nice tutorial! thanks!
Great tutorial again.
Could you make a tutorial about the most common/interesting affect & presets? Echo effect seems to be fun and I never use it before :D
fantastic man，yuour tutorial made my day!
Just amazing!!! Thanks!!
I love these! Thank you so much
Hi.. Is it possible to make an animated (curved?) arrows, orbiting around the shape, using this technique?
Thanks!
Love this kind of commentating!
You should make a tutorial about that awesome grainy glow around the main planet or whatever that center ball is.. Thats sweet, bro
It's actually one of his earlier videos :) ua-cam.com/video/0M9qe8_LhLo/v-deo.html
Hi Luiz! You can add a 'Glow' effect to your shape layer and then in the effects panel, set Color A to the fill color of the shape and set B color to the color of the background. Then adjust the Radius and Intensity as you want.
Not much to it really. A little gradient blur on a solid, a little HLS noise to taste, and a tint for some final colour control. That may be another of these very very quick tutorials :)
yes, I really want to see this in tutorial!)
Please, I really want to see this in tutorial too!
Great Work! i do have issues though.
After applying the Echo Effect on the Orbiter at 5:10 , i can't seem to replicate the same effect. But it worked when i pre-compose the Spinner and Orbiter and then apply the effect on the Precompose. Why is that?
Bro you saved my project, thanks :D
Thank's dudeee. Love your tutorials. You're funny :P
Thanks for the great tutorial although I though this will be made using some expressions because they happen to never interfere, turned out simpler than I imagined and I learned about that "echo" effect, I though you will be using "CC force motion blur". So is there any way to do it with expression to make them mathematically and visually satisfying ? Thanks again !
So we use the same principle while working with a comet (round top and pointy end)? I tried making it work with follow path thing but the comet doesn't curve. I'd like it to curve around the planet. Thanks.
Велике дякую! Мега круті уроки.
Hi! How do you create that lighting effect around your middle circle?
Awesome video!
WOW!!! This is so perfect!
But how can you still achieve this effect while having Layer Styles on the "Middle" Layer? I tried it and everytime i put and outer glow etc. on this layer the "Orbiter" doesnt go behind it anymore.
easy clear fast and awesome !
Simple but amazing 👍
WOW THIS IS VERY HELPFUL!! THANK YOU!
Glad to hear it!
That's genius!
I'd love a tutorial on your aesthetics or where you get your style choices from.
Like your intro looks amazing, the little lines inside the box or the weird glow of the "sun" that doesn't look perfect but is this grainy mess and perfect in a whole other way.
I know this wouldn't be a simple tutorial where you just achieve one effect so I'm not expecting you to do this since it's too broad of a concept but still a cool idea imo
That might be a topic to bring up on the live sessions we get into on this channel from time to time. That might be a better place to get into these open-ended optics.
Top! Using this for my next Googie-themed vid!
Man, that´s amazing, thanks a lot!
Brilliant! Thank youuu
Great stuff ! Thanks
thank you, excellent tutorial
When I auto orient to the camera, the shapes stop moving altogether. when i hide the camera layer they start moving again... :'(
Very very great thank you i'm subscribed
Greate tutorial, you make fun to watch, thanks man.
Amazing tutorial! :D Greetings from Brazil!
Thank you very much. Olá from Canada!
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What key am I supposed to press to make the spinner go around the nucleus indefinitely, if I am using a PC (not a mac)?
Requests you say, is there a way to make it bounce when someone talks just like the Canadians in South Park? I know I can connect to sound and make it jump but how can I make also rotate the path each time are return to its zero position.
awesome and easy! THX!
Cool!. But the effect of Echo didn't work in 3D view....How gonna do?
Really useful. More 2.5D animation tutorials if you may. But how do you variate the speed of the orbit (faster in certain area and slower in other areas)?
Set your keyframes closer :)
So good! Thank you
how did you add the textures like grain etc effect
2:14 not going behind the planets. Any suggestions?
Thankyou so much sir :)
Thank you so much!
tremendous job
This is so rad- Thaaaaaank you!! What if I wanted to use flower petals? is it also possible or much harder (because they're not circles but have a pointy edge on two parts)
depends on what you would like them to "do" really. This illusion works to look like spheres, but with any other shape it will look like a flat thing always facing the camera. If that's what you're going for, this would do it. What are you looking for the petals to seem like they are doing?
Man I get stuck on the rotating part and orient towards camera. I've got this ball with a handle on top if it, the handle spins 360 degrees, like it is charging something, but at some point it still looks completely flat eventhough I did the camera and orientation part. This handle is made out of round tube in real life, so it should never be flat when turning around, I'm stuck!
Ingenious!
oh shit! that is awesome and easy to do!
echo doesnt seem to be working for me in 3D layer. What do you think could be the issue?
Awesome tutorial! I can’t get the echo effect to work at all though. Any thoughts? When I add it, nothing happens. I tried changing the settings around and I just can’t get it to work. Thanks for any suggestions
interesting. Are you working in classic 3d renderer?
Thank you!
hey maybe someone can help me, when i do the auto orient to camera the object still is flat, i tried everything i could think of to fix it, i am looking through the active camera.
I want to maie something similar with « card » but I don’t want to add camera because I want the card to look like a « cake » when it’s at the edge of the « circle »
Can someone help me please?
First saw that and was totally wondering how to make that, you mind reader
As soon as I create the camera I loose the animation. Any suggestions?
Thanks teacher🥺🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
amazing sir...
Shocking good!
This may sound stupid but, for some reason when I do this with Text the text isn't going behind the center planet. any advice?
I tried to use a text layer instead of shape layer and attached the text layer to Null object, but when it goes behind the circle shape layer, the text is still showing. It didn't hid behind the circle as it was supposed to. How do I fix it?
I figured out the problem. I used layer style on the text layer. I resolved it by pre-comping the text layer and it works now.
I really enjoyed this tutorial, but I'm pretty interested in using 3d layers for motion graphics. I was wondering if it would be possible to do a tutorial on 3d layers more in depth? Maybe using basic cinema 4d shapes to make something?
I can put it on the list. 3d layers and c4d lite would need to be two separate topics I feel unless I'm showing how to achieve the same result using both methods as a compare and contrast. But that could certainly be a good teaching point.
ECAbrams Great to hear! Also wanted to show you soemthing I made following your grainy gradients tutorial and repeater tutorials. The rest was done through illustrator etc. photos.app.goo.gl/QoqeDoizSmBuiH616
@@octothedog that's super unsettling. i love it. just throwing up now.
Gold! thanks!
You are the best 👍🏻
Hi, I got an issue, when I added the “current towards camera" to the layer, my orbit didn't move along the null anymore...
same, no idea what to change
I made a guess that you would use the Orbit Null instead of a plain Null, animate the rotation and then parent the camera to it. And then Parent the centre planet to the Orbit Null as well, so then the camera and centre planet are spinning around and in fact the 'orbiter' is the static object.
Same thing at the end of the day though!
Very awesome. Anything on the coloring/texture used in this video? Thank you.
Which part of the colour or texture is giving you trouble?
When i put inner or outer glows to my main planet at the centeror basicaly do any pther stuff to it, the orbiting planets will no longer go behind the main planet anymore instead the just orbit right in front of it. is there a way to prevent that so i would have both a glowing main planet AND orbiting planet? thank you.
Sounds like you're using Layer Styles for the glows right? That's going to upset the layer order vs world order for rendering and force anything with a layer style into layer order priority over the actual 3d order. The solution is usually to precompose elements you have to put layer styles on, or use effects to achieve similar looks that won't break the 3d render order. Does that help?
Awesome!!
Thank you. If I applied Orient Towards Camera the Orbiter stops animating. I'm in AE 23.0.0 (macOS). Any idea? Best
There are a lot of folks in the comments with a similar issue. It seems like this is most often caused by the anchor point of the orbiter not being in the middle centre of the orbiter, but instead being in the middle centre of the composition. That means that if that layer auto orients towards the camera, from the middle centre of the comp, it will seem to not move at all. I hope that helps.
Thank You! 😀😀😀