Create an Epic Earth Sunrise in After Effects

[@CoREeu]

Before starting this tutorial I recommend that you make the 2 images of Earth (day and night) exactly the same size! This will make your job a lot easier when you're trying to layer it on top of eachother, I wish I had known it before. Thanks for the tutorial anyway, I'm happy with the end result.

[@curiousrefuge]

CoRE -eu great suggestion. As long as the earth doesn't need to rotate this would save a lot of time!

[@CoREeu]

I still have it rotating, so in other words.. I'm gonna run into trouble again soon? Haha.. I adjusted all the settings though so I don't think I will run into trouble :) I'm having so much fun with AE, but I'm also studying Animation and Film so I feel the urge to get better, but there's so much to do and learn it's insane, I just want to do everything you know... Like.. I open 1 tutorial and then 10 more pop-up, which also look very interesting.. that's actually how I ended up doing this tutorial too. Thanks for the fast reply, awesome!

[@Jurr]

When you add in the star background you lose the atmosphere edge. I put the atmosphere comp layer to 'Screen' instead of 'Soft Light' and turned down the opacity a bit to get it back. Not sure if anyone else noticed but hope it helps for those wondering :)

[@hockeyfreak896890]

Dude thank you so much for everything you do. Your tutorials really help out a rookie like myself. Bless you man!!!

[@blankstudiosfilm5706]

Hey, this was an incredible tutorial. Extremely clear and well explained. Please keep doing more like these, you were a massive help! It is sad to me your audience hasn't expanded more yet, you definitely deserve more subs. You got me! If I can suggest one thing, no one seems to do this, but it would be helpful if you explained what each perimeter does as you adjust them. Thanks again!

[@FreedomHunter]

Thanks a lot for this tutorial. I learned a lot and everything worked out fine!

[@sympolzion]

Would you ever consider doing this tutorial again, but with Video Copilot’s Orb plug-in?

[@fixins]

Following through this now and enjoying it. Thanks! If you bring the day, night and clouds images into Photoshop first and make them all the same size, you can save yourself some work in AFX. That's how I did it anyway as I am faster in PS than AFX.

[@touch7256]

I learned a lot from you. Thanks

[@Purrringcat]

Thank You, brother. You really helped me!

[@curiousrefuge]

Woo hoo! Glad it helped :)

[@GhostBingo]

Great job, I added some minor tweaks. like rotating stars and moving them a little.

[@WiraNunes]

Hi Caleb. Thanks for the amazing tutorial man! Subscribed and liked

[@curiousrefuge]

Thank you so much!

[@3rdscriptteam167]

Thank you so much, it's awesome tutorial.

[@curiousrefuge]

Thank you. Cheers

[@laurentschark]

Amazing video ! Thank you so much

[@HEL-x9v]

AWESOME TUTORIAL!!

[@edgarestrada3701]

Awesome!! Thanks a lot for sharing!

[@TechBoss]

Superb Tutorial! Thanks alot!

[@SoumyadipMukherjee17]

Awesome tut man!

[@curiousrefuge]

Dude, thanks!

[@ajprizzi68]

Great vid!

[@noskov5]

NICE!Good work,bro!

[@MajesticJoy19]

Dude this is awesome! Subscribing to you in a flash!

[@curiousrefuge]

Bro thanks! Cheers.

[@maverick4220]

A very good Tutorial , Thanks for sharing

[@BogdanEchoMilosevic]

Awesome, very helpful! Thanks so much dude!!

[@minimalfun]

That is awesome dude, thanks man!

[@JoanFCarson]

Amazing! Thank you

[@AakashKalaria]

It's simple and works!

[@ninala3067]

Awesome! Very nice voice.

[@rileyreynolds6442]

Very powerful buddy.

[@pithecusaustralo4452]

thanks

[@Laurainnesdg]

It's a great tutorial!!!

[@sdumo59]

Awesome

[@Ex-fk4nr]

That`s really nice...

[@bradfab_fx]

For the sunrise part click here 27:45

[@jyoroclu]

Thanks for the tutorial! Your animation looks awesome! By the way, can you do a version using Hitfilm Express?

[@artiXIXI]

thanks :)

[@mayamax3d]

amazing

[@7studio777]

nice video

[@mikeboychuk8809]

Hey guys how do you make the background grid, mine is black and idk how to fix it

[@amvpromaker]

Hey man awesome tut. just one question why didn't you use the foreground layers option in the Optical flares instead of masking it?

[@WKADESIGNS]

Hi Caleb, this is an awesome tutorial! Can I ask, how long did it take you to render the finished product? I'm on a Lenovo laptop right now, and it's taken me half a day to render 10 seconds of my footage (and that's with the quality cut in half).

[@rollcake]

Nice tutorial... .....Except, the whole thing is based on a couple of outsourced images thats not linked in any way. Are the pictures you used available anywhere as stock?

[@virtualfitnesstv]

Hi,Love the work you make, do you also sell the footage , we making a film about Space and looking for footage.

[@visualjewels]

ME GUSTA MUCHO Y SUSCRIBI!!!!

[@Horangetueni]

nice :D

[@silviogesell2332]

Just like NASA

[@ABpGral]

cool

[@sid3walk]

Hey man! Big thanks for this incredible tutorial! But as i understand laws of physics i have few questions about how to make it more realistic: 1. Glow from the Sun will be different for Water and Land 2. There should be shadows from the skies. And they should change shape as sun moves up 3. I know you mention how to animate cloud layer, but i don't understand what you mean. Could you help me, how is this possible to achieve with AE? Sorry for the questions, as i novice in AE and don't know how to solve this on my own.

[@vid828]

SDWLK FFS, don't ask such shitty questions if you're a novice. The nerve of some people. Kindly fuck off

[@sid3walk]

haha, i bet you get beaten by your school teacher.

[@vid828]

+SDWLK A teacher...something you've never had until now...Me. Now you've heard my wisdom, be on your way.

[@sid3walk]

i glad that you done your homework and mom gave to you wifi password for internet,

[@vid828]

+SDWLK Some people, you give an inch and they take a mile.

[@lohilpeter9529]

where should i get texture of night time texture and storm cloud texture

[@masterac7344]

question, i have a camera traking my earth, and because of that, any mask that i make is messed up, any idea on how to fix this ?

[@curiousrefuge]

You could probably fix that by precomposing your comp with the camera and applying the masks in the final comp.

[@r335]

HEY BROTHER. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS TUT. I WAS ABLE TO FINISH THE WHOLE THING. YOU EXPLAINED EVERYTHING SO CLEAR. I HAVE A QUESTION. CAN I MAKE IT LONGER THAN 10 SECS? HOW WOULD I DO THAT? IN COMPOSITION SETTINGS? IF DONE THERE WOULD IT MESS UP THE WHOLE TIMELINE? PLEASE HELP BRO. I NEED THE EART ROTATING FOR ANOTHER 5-10 SECONDS WHILE THE SUN IS UP. THANKS SO MUCH

[@curiousrefuge]

+Rahsaan Rees thanks for the kind words. You can very easily extend the animation by changing the composition duration in the composition settings window. Then just extend the key frames by holding down the option key while you drag all of the key frames to match your new composition length.

[@r335]

Brother thank you so much. I'm gonna make the changes today. I know this tutorial was done a year ago but this is the best one on youtube and looks the nicest. Is there any way you can do a tutorial that continues this effect into a zoom to earth effect? Like how it goes from Earth right through the clouds into a location? If not that's cool bro. But thank you so much again. I've learned so much from this!

[@r335]

OR EVEN IF YOU CAN SHOW ME HOW TO DO A SIMPLE ZOOM FROM WHAT YOU CREATED TO EVEN A WHITE SCREEN? THAT WOULD HELP A LOT. THANKS MAN!

[@Remobanism]

can anybody please tell me how to fix this i made one project as per my needs and my after effects is working so slow for some reason it takes 73 hrs to render btw i did the same thing just in 4k but even when i try to render the files that you gave they say 1 hr but eventually fails to render please reply :(

[@curiousrefuge]

+Remobanism Sometimes depending on your hardware and project configuration you might have a project that is simple too much for your computer to handle. When this happens to me I use a render farm service to export my AE projects. It is literally 100x faster. I'll do a future tutorial on how it's done. I typically use Pixel Plow.

[@Remobanism]

Caleb Ward can you please tell me here as its very urgent Thanks For The Reply

[@truecrimeMIA]

the project file isnt free anymore? when i go to the site, there's a $10 price tag on it.

[@hardstyle9512]

"Cool"

[@escapesubterraneo3701]

Hey Caleb! Great tutorial. Have you noticed that whenever you put the stars layer, the atmosphere goes away and if I hide the stars layer, the atmosphere comes back. Any suggestions on how to fix that? Thanks

[@curiousrefuge]

+Escape Subterraneo very interesting. Did you set the transfer mode of the stars to screen?

[@escapesubterraneo3701]

Thanks for your reply. Yes I have set the transfer mode to screen, however it does not seem to make any difference and If I not mistaking the atmosphere got lost on the tutorial as well. what else could I try? Like I said before I can see the atmosphere when hiding the stars layer. Regards Emilio

[@curiousrefuge]

+Escape Subterraneo honestly that is very strange. I have no idea without seeing the project.

[@nguyendu8671]

where are your another tutorial ? :((

[@sunita7949]

hi don't have optical flares in effects in After effects, what should i do ???

[@curiousrefuge]

Hi Sunita! Feel free to email us at our website and we'll try and offer some solutions :)

[@deweshpandey7349]

Where can I download the assets for free?

[@dragonfly100ify]

where is the download link for the images used in this project

[@gregbacon9808]

LOL, training Vid for NASA techs ! Bwahahaha 😂😂😂👏🏻

[@PakEventWah]

hello Caleb hope you doing well. I didn't find the Video Copilot's Optical Flares, can you tell me how and from where to get this ?

[@curiousrefuge]

Pak Event sure thing. Here it is www.videocopilot.net/products/opticalflares/ it's a fantastic product.

[@AdrianChazz]

You sometimes sound like Abed Nadir... "Cool."

[@curiousrefuge]

Hahah. Cool cool cool.

[@sudeshprathap]

couldn't download the files in that link.

[@WeAreRonin]

I can't render the 16k image of the earth :-(

[@Jurr]

For me it helped to lower the Bits Per Channel (bpc). In your Project tab, at the bottom, it will say either 8, 16 or 32 bpc. Hold 'alt' and click on the number to change it (for me it was still on 32, and setting it to 16 did the trick. But you might have to set it to 8 depending on your PC).

[@Savannie]

Hi! May i use this in an instagram edit? Its not for commercial just fun (:

[@curiousrefuge]

Totally! Just tag CalebWWard

[@therealfrankwhite]

Where's a good place to get different earth texture maps? Do you know?

[@lorenbooker9486]

Nasa has one that is at a stupid resolution. I think it's 21,600 x 10,800 from satellite photos merged together seamlessly.

[@Forlornguild]

Yeah right buddy. lol "From satellite photos seemed together seamlessly". More like something they created you bonehead.

[@gumtrap9539]

Can't get nighttime earth and daytime earth to line up properly. If I try to make the one fit the other it goes out of place somewhere else. Any advice?

[@gumtrap9539]

- Caleb Ward

[@curiousrefuge]

Hmm... Have you tried using an effect like the bezier warp to line your assets up? You could also take it into photoshop and perfect the overlay there. Let me know what you figure out.

[@GSDPops]

So color me stupid. You're using Optical Flares from Video Copilot but CC Sphere to create the Earth. Is there a reason why you're not using VC Orb? I understand that to achieve the sunrise glow effect here would be quite different because of how VC Orb works,, but is there a reason you didn't use the free plug in?

[@moranetigger]

Hello brother ! Do u mind if I use this epic image to creat a gif for a pray union call to my spiritual group ?

[@curiousrefuge]

Use it however you want! Cheers

[@moranetigger]

Thx brother !

[@sinsim588]

can download from link some of the images :(

[@oddocid9734]

if i dont have the gradient ramp , which one can help me more?

[@curiousrefuge]

If you don't have gradient ramp it's probably because you're using an older version of After Effects. Just use the 'Ramp' effect and it will be the same.

[@oddocid9734]

Ohh great thanks!

[@danielgumball7975]

i can not see optical flares (((((((( why ????

[@Muzly]

Daniel gumball It's a plugin that you need to buy from video copilot

[@emrey2252]

Turkey

[@mina_maherr]

Whats the song used ?

[@SparksYT]

why does it say that the project files costs money when you said it was free?

[@beechFPV]

just add email and click download. the money is to buy the completed project not for the files

[@SparksYT]

Paul Beech it was the complete project file I wanted tho but it's fine I have already made my own

[@beechFPV]

Im annoyed that the sun you have to pay for

[@SparksYT]

Paul Beech you don't have to pay for no sun? just customize a lens flare

[@beechFPV]

Ok. How is it obtained ?

[@saweknaczaj3760]

Project files: No design, only maps

[@MyLugra]

can you send the image (material earth) to my email?

[@flatearthreality8683]

dude. i got to tell you. The Earth is flat. you have done a better job faking the globe earth than NASA. NASA should see this tutorial and make a better earth animations. because you are better with this than they are. thumbs up!

[@stevecurryemmer]

the earth is clearly not flat.... Are you serious in thinking it is? And here I sit thinking I fucked up somewhere along the road.....

[@flatearthreality8683]

yes, it is flat!! we all fucked up!! research flat earth

[@neilg7098]

He is joking. (Or else he is one of those pre-intellectual Trump supporters.)

[@HunterMcDowall]

where does being a Trump supporter make you a person that thinks the earth is flat? I am a Trump supporter and I know the earth is round.

[@HunterMcDowall]

Hey idiot, guess what? The earth is not freaking flat!!! All you gotta do is watch the live videos that NASA puts up on their KZbin channel and you can clearly see that the earth is not flat.

[@danielgumball7975]

please help me (

[@sinsim588]

Can you please send them to my email address ??? ( images )

[@beechFPV]

Slightly annoyed .. went through nearly all the video up to the point where it needs the sun and then you say that there is an extra pluging thats needed and it not free.. not cool man

[@2st486]

it's hilarious how we even see how it's done and still believe what nasa show us is real