After the Turbulent Displace on the Sun Comp, while he talked about his Heat Plugin, I added this which looked somewhat similar. --> 1. New Solid (white), pre-compose (named Steam), leave this comp above Sun. 2. Open new comp, Fractal Noise on the white solid. 3. Fractal Settings - Small Bumps, check 'Invert', contrast = 130, brightness = 1, evolve 'time*200' and animate sub offset upwards as Andrew did earlier. 4. Back in main comp, create new Adjustment layer and put it below Steam comp (but above Sun Comp), set TrkMat to " Luma Inverted Matte "Steam"". 5. Effects> Fastblur 120 on Adjustment layer. This added a bit of a Steamy surface/heatblur effect, looks great on mine.
Anyone who has problems getting the glow layer under the Star map, lock the Glow layer and move the star map on the z-axis towards you (click and hold on the blue dot of the 3d axis in the center of the star map an drag it to the right)
Just figured that out by looking at the top view now after being frustrated for a while, but now the star layer appears to have square edges like its not a screen layer. SO odd!! hopefully i'll figure it out. This tut goes way too fast and changes settings back and forth several times. arg. lol. But still thankful!
To get some cool flares, incorporate the 3D light rays tutorial with a null in the centre of the sun and a radial blur coming from it, and drop a curves adjustment on it with heavy contrast so the rays only emit from the really bright areas.
If you get an error with the expressions "value+lookAt(thisComp.activeCamera.toWorld([0,0,0]),position)[0]" After Effects auto changes toWorld to to-World. Just change it to toWorld and it will work.
the most importent and crazy thing is, that it's without any 3rd party plugins, I mean this just shows that after effects has far more possibilities than we ever have thought and Andrew just shows one of the crazy things you can do with after effects for free! thats freaking amazing and I thank you so much
Great tutorial. I've been wanting to add more organic effects to my AE jobs, and I can see fractal noise is going to be a big player. Thanks for the insight. Love the quality of your work, your tutorials, and your humor. Best AE series on TH-cam!
OMG. I did it. But all those flames - they are made with rather different settings than as you show on the video. Had to spend a couple of hours to find some solution that could be more or less closer to your final result.
I was having trouble with the glow placement. I managed to get the glow behind the sun to work but then the one in front would still stay behind. I decided to start over and since Im using this for a "whole sun" (not just the top half) I didnt "zoom in" with the camera. I dunno how you pulled the sun down when you zoomed in but that seems to be the issue. I know you right click to zoom in, but when you pulled the image down it appears after effects acts a little funny with the extra glows.
Try seeing if your layers are in the proper order, specifically, where is the Adjustment Layer? I'm a noob at After Effects as well, but try to see if that works because it works in Photoshop.
I had the same exact problem. What i did is created a new layer called inner glow like the other glows and did the same exact process but this time on top of the star map layer...
Hey, i was having same problem here today, i place the duplicated nº3 glow on top of star map but nothing happened... still looking like it was in the botton with the others, what i did was, i turn the 3d layer option off than on again and it worked, it show up just like in the video, i had to reposition a bit, but it worked. i hope it works for you.
For those who get an Error while copy and pasting the expressions ... try to write the first expression down but don't copy and paste it... then when you wrote down the first expression .. you can copy this one and paste it at Y and Z. This helped me :) I hope you could understand me ^^"
For those who have an issue with the rotation expressions, there is supposed to be a space between value+lookAt and (thisComp... This fixed it for me and i didn't get anymore syntax errors
value+lookAt(thisComp.activeCamera.toWorld([0,0,0]),position)[0] After Effects warning: syntax error Exspression disabled. Mi da errore! mi sai spiegare perchè? La mia versione di after effects è in inglese. grazie
value+lookAt(thisComp.activeCamera.toWorld([0,0,0]),position)[0] tutto ok.. quando fai copia incolla appare un segno meno "toWor-ld" che scompare quando fai invio. per mi dava errore. devi cancellarlo prima di confermare.
dasciuri value + lookat (thisComp.activeCamera.toWorld ([0,0,0]), position) [0] After Effects warning: syntax error Exspression disabled. how to fix it?
Andrew is the man. Many have tried and nearly all have failed. I always have a blast doing these. I learn more from him than the 2 million others.... "Put 65 for the velocity and 25 on the opacity". NEXT! , yea but why and what else can we do from that point or done differently for a more interesting result? you Learn nothing. I guess that's why Andrew gets the big jobs and pwns the Nab event.
I knew this included some animated fractal noise, I used something similar to create the effect I used for TrekCore's title and ending cards. You can kinda see it here: TrekCore Interviews DS9's Casey Biggs
Hi there. I am having issues with the white solid (glow min.10:07 of the tutorial). When I make it a 3D layer it changes position and it is transversally inside the sphere. Where am I wrong? Thanks and congratulations for your tutorials
Cool tutorial but two thirds into I received: This project contains expression errors: error 1 of 3; next my sun went white. I checked the expression several times against yours, they are the same. So sad to not see my Sun finished. :(
At 14:46-ish you were talking about animating the fractal noise upwards and you said you could keyframe it. But then you deleted the keyframes and did SOMETHING, then said the other thing I did was turbulant displace. Something in there got cutout that explains how you got the noise to move upwards without keyframing. Would love to know what that was/is.
Hi, I was following this Tutorial Step by Step till postion 10:35 minutes. After I created the the 3D Glow layer, after I put it under the Star layer, I was NOT able to get the Star Layer on top of the Glow after "Auto-Orient" => Orient Towards Camera" . Video Copilot : Please help. I read comments about this, but I do not know how to get the glow really behind the Star Map. May be I made somewhere a stupid mistake. Thanks for helping.
15:02 I was just doing the " TURBULENT DISPLACE " thingy and then you said " Shoutout to Ryan Connolly for making that a household name " I bursted in laughter.
Everyone who has a problem when making the torch 3D.. right click on the torch layer in the SUN composition > Transformation > Auto-Orient > Orient towards camera. YOU WELCOME.
Stoked to try this tonight. Andrew would you consider doing a workflow tutorial? I feel like I'm not alone in being a noob who just compiles everything in After Effects and completely avoids Premiere. Which works alright I guess, but I can see how it is limiting.
That was an awesome tutorial. Avery time I get my hands on something like this I can't understand how do these cool tutors figure these things out... Thank you.
For those who can't find the Fast Blur option, I found this helpful hint posted Feb 16, 2017: *"Fast Blur is the same blur algorithm as Box Blur, with the Iterations parameter set to 3. Absolutely no difference. Same for the Gaussian Blur (Legacy) effect; the only difference between it and Fast Blur was the Repeat Edge Pixels parameter.* *The new GPU-accelerated Gaussian Blur uses a different blur algorithm. The same one that Premiere Pro offers under the name "Gaussian Blur". The rendered results will look different compared to the Gaussian Blur (Legacy) effect.* *So although Fast Blur and Gaussian Blur (Legacy) were moved to the obsolete folder, you can still use them but you can get the same results with the Box Blur filter with the Iterations parameter set to 3. We're investigating ways to make this more obvious, and "faster". "*
You're welcome You can also find the actual "Fast Blur" in the 'Effects and Presets' panel under the 'Obsolete' drop down for now, but who knows if Adobe will keep it.
Thx For the Video as new to Ae this was easy to follow and learn alot.. will look to see what else i can create with this and see if i can merge a few things..
you can also simulate the heat distortion effect with a simple trick: duplicate the Sun layer, usa an gaußian blur effect, create a solidlayer with an turbulant noise effect (play with the settings) and use this layer as a luminanz-mask for the duplicated sun layer. done.
Template used for VFX in our music cover video! Thanks, Andrew & team @ VCP! Here's to all you Knife Party fans! th-cam.com/video/eUqY6Qd5Ge0/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/EPSTaiQM0_A/w-d-xo.html
At 11:40 I follow the steps for the inner glow but after adding the subtract to the Mask 2 even when I adjust the feather nothing seems to happen. Have any suggestions?
Would you guys consider doing a Sci-Fi video with some of your plug-ins, except instead of doing 7 hours of Christmas Fireplace, do something like 7 hours of sci-fi effects and sound? Sound of Rain and Effects of a Venus station? 7 hours of a Dwarf Forge being stoked? etc.
Followed the tutorial up to 9:04. Why does my planet remain flat while using the orbit tool when yours rotates? I've auto orientated it which fixes yours. My planet doesnt 3D rotate anymore, it stays flat to the camera.
Ever heard or seen the Millennium Simulation? I think a similar effect could be achieved via fractal noise but not sure how to pull off giving it depth for a camera to move through. I am interested to hear some suggestions if at all possible. Thanks in advance.
Hey! Awesome tutorial. Since we're using evolution on the star maps, how would we get rid of the seams? I need to for what I want to use it for. Thanks for any help :)
I dont understand how he can be so creative to use so many tools to create one result. Ahh i have so much respect for people like this!
Kevor Studios
Because he's secretly a god! Lol
Its awesome that you began to make regular tuts. Keep going!
After the Turbulent Displace on the Sun Comp, while he talked about his Heat Plugin, I added this which looked somewhat similar. -->
1. New Solid (white), pre-compose (named Steam), leave this comp above Sun.
2. Open new comp, Fractal Noise on the white solid.
3. Fractal Settings - Small Bumps, check 'Invert', contrast = 130, brightness = 1, evolve 'time*200' and animate sub offset upwards as Andrew did earlier.
4. Back in main comp, create new Adjustment layer and put it below Steam comp (but above Sun Comp), set TrkMat to " Luma Inverted Matte "Steam"".
5. Effects> Fastblur 120 on Adjustment layer.
This added a bit of a Steamy surface/heatblur effect, looks great on mine.
Anyone who has problems getting the glow layer under the Star map, lock the Glow layer and move the star map on the z-axis towards you (click and hold on the blue dot of the 3d axis in the center of the star map an drag it to the right)
+Hadeseffect Thank you LOL, that was really frustrating.
THX MATE!
Nope, that didnt work for me :(
Just figured that out by looking at the top view now after being frustrated for a while, but now the star layer appears to have square edges like its not a screen layer. SO odd!! hopefully i'll figure it out. This tut goes way too fast and changes settings back and forth several times. arg. lol. But still thankful!
@@sean.sullivan got this problem now, did u figure it out?
To get some cool flares, incorporate the 3D light rays tutorial with a null in the centre of the sun and a radial blur coming from it, and drop a curves adjustment on it with heavy contrast so the rays only emit from the really bright areas.
dang thats a damn fine idea there
If you get an error with the expressions "value+lookAt(thisComp.activeCamera.toWorld([0,0,0]),position)[0]" After Effects auto changes toWorld to to-World. Just change it to toWorld and it will work.
"We get the knowledge,...they get skin cancer"lolol I immediately thumbs up'ed and sub'd \m/
did exactly the same! lol
my god that cracks me up.
the most importent and crazy thing is, that it's without any 3rd party plugins,
I mean this just shows that after effects has far more possibilities than we ever have thought and Andrew just shows one of the crazy things you can do with after effects for free! thats freaking amazing and I thank you so much
Great tutorial. I've been wanting to add more organic effects to my AE jobs, and I can see fractal noise is going to be a big player. Thanks for the insight. Love the quality of your work, your tutorials, and your humor. Best AE series on TH-cam!
What a great tutorial! And great humor within the first minute in typical Andrew Kramer style
OMG. I did it. But all those flames - they are made with rather different settings than as you show on the video. Had to spend a couple of hours to find some solution that could be more or less closer to your final result.
Love watching his tutorials. This guy is a freaking motion graphics genius.
Everything Video Copilot puts out is beautiful. You guys rock. You rock, Andrew Kramer.
Watching this in 2024 and this still amazinggg !! Can’t wait to see what you have for us ! 🎉
Great tutorial! Also, even before you gave the shout out to Ryan, I started singing the Turbulent Displace song XD
I know how you feel :D
TURBULENT DISP:ACEMENT! TURBULENT DISPLACEMENT! :D
For 2019 users, apply Fast Box blur instead of Radial Fast blur to ensure no clipping :)
I was having trouble with the glow placement. I managed to get the glow behind the sun to work but then the one in front would still stay behind. I decided to start over and since Im using this for a "whole sun" (not just the top half) I didnt "zoom in" with the camera. I dunno how you pulled the sun down when you zoomed in but that seems to be the issue. I know you right click to zoom in, but when you pulled the image down it appears after effects acts a little funny with the extra glows.
Try seeing if your layers are in the proper order, specifically, where is the Adjustment Layer? I'm a noob at After Effects as well, but try to see if that works because it works in Photoshop.
I just started this tutorial and Im having the exact same problem. Its like it disappears when its at different angles. Fuck you after effects!
I had the same exact problem. What i did is created a new layer called inner glow like the other glows and did the same exact process but this time on top of the star map layer...
Hey, i was having same problem here today, i place the duplicated nº3 glow on top of star map but nothing happened... still looking like it was in the botton with the others, what i did was, i turn the 3d layer option off than on again and it worked, it show up just like in the video, i had to reposition a bit, but it worked. i hope it works for you.
The glow part was a game finisher for me....
Every time I set out to create a cool effect, I do search and low and behold, Mr. Kramer has already done it. And better. Arrgggh!
For those who get an Error while copy and pasting the expressions ... try to write the first expression down but don't copy and paste it... then when you wrote down the first expression .. you can copy this one and paste it at Y and Z. This helped me :)
I hope you could understand me ^^"
For those who have an issue with the rotation expressions, there is supposed to be a space between value+lookAt and (thisComp...
This fixed it for me and i didn't get anymore syntax errors
value+lookAt(thisComp.activeCamera.toWorld([0,0,0]),position)[0]
Afer Effects warning: syntax error Exspression disabled.
Why this syntax so you can not use.Who are not only helping yourself thanks
"toWor-ld" correggi "toWorld"
dasciuri Oh! Okay thank you. :))
I get this warning too..
Toy Mit
OK I didnt realise the word 'world' copied like this..'wor-ld'.
if anyone has a problem getting the glow layer right just copy the transform contents of the star map layer and paste them to the white solid layer
helped me so much, was stuck on after effects trying to make a sun and this was my savour
We need more tutorials from you!!!!!!!!!!!!
You've done it again Andrew...beautiful work!
Just awesome and amazing how quickly you put it all together. Thanks for posting.
This is truly awesome! Thanks for the hard work and the willingness of sharing your knowledge and experience.
I'm addicted to your channel man.
Here in Italy it's 2.10 a.m.
This is probably the best sun in a long time XD
value+lookAt(thisComp.activeCamera.toWorld([0,0,0]),position)[0]
After Effects warning: syntax error Exspression disabled.
Mi da errore! mi sai spiegare perchè? La mia versione di after effects è in inglese. grazie
value+lookAt(thisComp.activeCamera.toWorld([0,0,0]),position)[0]
tutto ok.. quando fai copia incolla appare un segno meno "toWor-ld" che scompare quando fai invio. per mi dava errore. devi cancellarlo prima di confermare.
dasciuri Thank you for this.
dasciuri
value + lookat (thisComp.activeCamera.toWorld ([0,0,0]), position) [0]
After Effects warning: syntax error Exspression disabled. how to fix it?
HDtutorials sei il migliore!
You're the best Andrew! Thank you for your FANTASTIC tutorials!
Andrew is the man. Many have tried and nearly all have failed. I always have a blast doing these. I learn more from him than the 2 million others.... "Put 65 for the velocity and 25 on the opacity". NEXT! , yea but why and what else can we do from that point or done differently for a more interesting result? you Learn nothing. I guess that's why Andrew gets the big jobs and pwns the Nab event.
Awesome stuff Andrew! Testing this out first thing tomorrow at the office :) Thanks for great inspiration and tips!
Andrew, you are good at what you do - amazing designs.
9:49 Inadvertent Cylon Base Star reference. Great vid. Very helpful.
haha yes! this is the most sun i gotten in weeks! Great tutorial btw, looking forward to more of your tutorials.
Thanks, this is really cool. Grid is fantastic as well, I hope to see more new tutorials!
Alright, bud. I'm sold. I'll learn freakin after effects now.This info is too good to pass up.
I knew this included some animated fractal noise, I used something similar to create the effect I used for TrekCore's title and ending cards.
You can kinda see it here:
TrekCore Interviews DS9's Casey Biggs
It was about time you made a new sound pack, thanks!
If anyone has trouble with the blur getting cropped in 10:53, uncheck the "repeat edge pixels"
Hi there. I am having issues with the white solid (glow min.10:07 of the tutorial). When I make it a 3D layer it changes position and it is transversally inside the sphere. Where am I wrong? Thanks and congratulations for your tutorials
I'm with you...The night time is the right time.
Cool tutorial but two thirds into I received: This project contains expression errors: error 1 of 3; next my sun went white. I checked the expression several times against yours, they are the same. So sad to not see my Sun finished. :(
You should re-create this with the orb plugin
with every tutorial you show possibilities of AE become more and more wide...
thanks.
VitaminD ;)
Your lessons seem to be from the gods! I studied at your site!
At 14:46-ish you were talking about animating the fractal noise upwards and you said you could keyframe it. But then you deleted the keyframes and did SOMETHING, then said the other thing I did was turbulant displace. Something in there got cutout that explains how you got the noise to move upwards without keyframing. Would love to know what that was/is.
you are always so much resourceful Andrew, thank you so much for the video.
The best looking sun I have ever seen...
This tutorial is really great! !! I made something like a scene from a movie.
とても感謝しています！！Thanks！！
Hi, I was following this Tutorial Step by Step till postion 10:35 minutes. After I created the the 3D Glow layer, after I put it under the Star layer, I was NOT able to get the Star Layer on top of the Glow after "Auto-Orient" => Orient Towards Camera" . Video Copilot : Please help. I read comments about this, but I do not know how to get the glow really behind the Star Map. May be I made somewhere a stupid mistake. Thanks for helping.
Great tutorial. Thank You so much for Your work!
The king's After Effects!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
15:02 I was just doing the " TURBULENT DISPLACE " thingy and then you said " Shoutout to Ryan Connolly for making that a household name " I bursted in laughter.
Everyone who has a problem when making the torch 3D.. right click on the torch layer in the SUN composition > Transformation > Auto-Orient > Orient towards camera. YOU WELCOME.
Andrew Kramer knows after effects more than Adobe itself!!
Wow, was more shocked by new SFX library adverted. This smoke over title @ 30:28 so epic. Maybe tutorial or advice how to make this?
Stoked to try this tonight.
Andrew would you consider doing a workflow tutorial? I feel like I'm not alone in being a noob who just compiles everything in After Effects and completely avoids Premiere. Which works alright I guess, but I can see how it is limiting.
That was an awesome tutorial. Avery time I get my hands on something like this I can't understand how do these cool tutors figure these things out... Thank you.
thank you so much for this tutorial its helping me learn after effects and really get the the knowledge of the effects
For those who can't find the Fast Blur option, I found this helpful hint posted Feb 16, 2017:
*"Fast Blur is the same blur algorithm as Box Blur, with the Iterations parameter set to 3. Absolutely no difference. Same for the Gaussian Blur (Legacy) effect; the only difference between it and Fast Blur was the Repeat Edge Pixels parameter.*
*The new GPU-accelerated Gaussian Blur uses a different blur algorithm. The same one that Premiere Pro offers under the name "Gaussian Blur". The rendered results will look different compared to the Gaussian Blur (Legacy) effect.*
*So although Fast Blur and Gaussian Blur (Legacy) were moved to the obsolete folder, you can still use them but you can get the same results with the Box Blur filter with the Iterations parameter set to 3. We're investigating ways to make this more obvious, and "faster". "*
that was my question! Thanks!
You're welcome
You can also find the actual "Fast Blur" in the 'Effects and Presets' panel under the 'Obsolete' drop down for now, but who knows if Adobe will keep it.
It's our plugin, we're going to plug it. :D
Excellent tutorial as always!
Thx For the Video as new to Ae this was easy to follow and learn alot.. will look to see what else i can create with this and see if i can merge a few things..
U r always awesome ! :) :D
Awesome tutorial, but I have a question. Is there a way I can render this with a transparent background?
you can also simulate the heat distortion effect with a simple trick: duplicate the Sun layer, usa an gaußian blur effect, create a solidlayer with an turbulant noise effect (play with the settings) and use this layer as a luminanz-mask for the duplicated sun layer. done.
Template used for VFX in our music cover video!
Thanks, Andrew & team @ VCP!
Here's to all you Knife Party fans!
th-cam.com/video/eUqY6Qd5Ge0/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/EPSTaiQM0_A/w-d-xo.html
Would love a video combining the fractal noise with E3D obj. I watched the other Star Trek video but it's about a 3 second part about it.
having an slight problem when I move the glow layer to go behind the star map layer it's not going behind it I did exactly like in the tutorial
At 11:40 I follow the steps for the inner glow but after adding the subtract to the Mask 2 even when I adjust the feather nothing seems to happen. Have any suggestions?
I like the torch layer!!
For anyone had problems with the glow layers ,remove the cam .. position the layer then add cam and start zooming and rotating.
Would you guys consider doing a Sci-Fi video with some of your plug-ins, except instead of doing 7 hours of Christmas Fireplace, do something like 7 hours of sci-fi effects and sound? Sound of Rain and Effects of a Venus station? 7 hours of a Dwarf Forge being stoked? etc.
I would absolutely go to see Andrew Kramer do stand up. Hilarious and awesome! Hilariously awesome!
So cool !!!!!!!I'll try this effect in one of my videos. Thank you
Kramer& You best! I like you tutorials
I like Tutorials w/o other plugins .. keep doing this! :)
Amazing tutorial mate, great job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome tutorial as always Andrew :)
This tutorials effect was used in an episode of Voltron :P great tutorial as always ;)
I have an idea for a super hero Fire Man!! Able to put out fires on large buildings in a single bound! Can squirt water over 100 feet!!!
I am having a problem where the internal glow wont go over the sun no matter where i place it... How do i fix this?
The expression doesn't work.. :( Syntax error :S
use lookAt(thisComp.activeCamera.toWorld([0,0,0]),position)[0] it works
RaduFlorin's Social Headquarters thank you very much!!
RaduFlorin's Social Headquarters Ha! Thanks! Worked!! :)
RaduFlorin's Social Headquarters Wow, it works fine!. thanks!!!!
wooh that was hard but crazy cool effect! thank u!
Learned so much! Thank you Andrew!
Awesome tutorial.
Also 0:44, as a programmer I can relate.
This finally worked for me. I had 3 ccsphere effects on one fractal. Apply it to the main layer in comp only.
At 9:34 you drag it down. How do you do that? I am trying to drag the layer down and it goes all over the place... it doesn't just drag straight down.
Followed the tutorial up to 9:04. Why does my planet remain flat while using the orbit tool when yours rotates? I've auto orientated it which fixes yours. My planet doesnt 3D rotate anymore, it stays flat to the camera.
here is the expression for scripting smoke (y value only)
Offset turbulence, alt click-> [1920, time*-150]
feel free to modify time
Ever heard or seen the Millennium Simulation? I think a similar effect could be achieved via fractal noise but not sure how to pull off giving it depth for a camera to move through. I am interested to hear some suggestions if at all possible. Thanks in advance.
Can you do a tutorial for Title which comes at 30:28 for motion pulse? Mainly for the part where the assets move with the text shape. Please.
Awesome tutorial. Thanks so much guys!
It's magic! Great Talent! Compliments! :)
Seriously awesome tutorial! Thank you!
"We get the knowledge "
Right !!
Hey! Awesome tutorial. Since we're using evolution on the star maps, how would we get rid of the seams? I need to for what I want to use it for. Thanks for any help :)
I would like to know that too!
AAAAHHHH! THIS WAS AWESOME! I'M SO THANKFUL! Thanks!
I made it 20 minutes in, then my computer decided "Whaaaat? That's too much info, man." And then sat down like a fat kid offered cake in a 5K.
i love learn from your video, thank you so much