Spinning Globe - Adobe After Effects tutorial

[@ECAbrams]

You're welcome! I'm glad you like them. New stuff every week I promise :)

[@ECAbrams]

I'm glad you like the tutorial. I don't know what you've done to make things black and white though. There are so many things it could be. Is everything black and white? Have you changed a layer style? Have you changed a view setting?

[@zacharynoonan7659]

Thanks for being hilariously charismatic during your tutorials. Keep it up man. Youre humor reminds me of mine and my best friends.

[@MrPotatoMadness]

Your tutorials are always a good way to start of my Sunday morning here in Norway :) *salutes*

[@DrushNL]

I love how fast paced this tutorial was. I'm new to AE so that may be the reason it felt fast paced, still useful. Thanks :)

[@ECAbrams]

well thanks, and the exclamation points are a nice touch too.

[@nicoweiglein6662]

Hey man, I just wanted to drop you a comment on this video especially because I think it's the first tutorial of yours I ever followed, five years ago, and you are essentially the reason I stumbled my way into a job that involves motion design :) Thanks for being pretty much my sole teacher on the beginning of that journey!

[@ECAbrams]

That's fantastic! Congratulations!

[@ECAbrams]

Technically it's setup for "pay what you want" pricing. So you're free to pay what you feel it's worth. If that's zero dollars you're welcome to put up that much for it. Some folks like the option to help fund their favourite source of free after effects training, and it helps make more tutorials and project files available in the future.

[@ECAbrams]

It was. I said in February I think that I would be going on weekly postings. So far so good. Before it was like monthly or twice monthly or sometimes not for a long time. But now I'm regular like All Bran so far.

[@adderall5]

I have gained some expertise in 3DS Max, and now having worked professionally for a few years, I'm beginning to do more "2D" animation using adobe stuff. Your tutorials have helped me immensely. Thanks and nicely done. I've subscribed and will be viewing these often. This particular tut is my favorite. Thanks Evan. You are the best.

[@ECAbrams]

Well not wrong. Just different. If you do everything I do then your result should be my result. When you added the stroke dashes what did you set the settings at? How many dashes did you add? How big are the dashes? Have you soloed the layer to look at just it without anything that might be behind or in front that is confusing you?

[@ECAbrams]

coming soon there might be even more than weekly. But don't go spreading that around because it might not actually happen as I plan

[@ECAbrams]

Awesome. Happy you do.

[@ECAbrams]

Well you can copy/paste points from illustrator if you like. Or you can use the auto-trace. Have you used the auto-trace? Give it a go.

[@ECAbrams]

you never know until you try. I specifically used "convert vectors to shapes" but you can use "anything" to wrap around a sphere. It can be literally any comp, any footage, any layer.

[@ECAbrams]

Well thanks. I like to start my Sunday with a good workout, a cup of tea, and getting in a fight with a stranger.

[@ECAbrams]

That's great to hear. I'm glad they continue to be good stuff. I'm sure I'll drop the ball some day :)

[@ECAbrams]

I think you just have to be careful you're copying from and to the correct things and selecting the exact propery you want it to go to. It is an error caused from a mismatch of expected data. So going from opacity which is data of type 1 to 3d position which is of type 3 would cause an error because the data doesn't match. So just double check your from and to and you should be good.

[@ECAbrams]

Thanks! I'm looking into posting some more advanced stuff coming up so that'll be rad too :)

[@SpaceKingDinosaur]

Woosh! (The sound effect made me laugh.) Another great tutorial with a bunch of helpful things which can be applied to many projects. Keep being awesome.

[@ECAbrams]

that;s cool stuff. I dig the adventure time part. Hora de Aventura!

[@ECAbrams]

Well it depends if you want to make vectors but you can use the "auto trace" function to the same effects.

[@ECAbrams]

30 seconds of the best intentionally worst comedy I'm able to muster :)

[@ECAbrams]

Have you tried adding dashes to the stroke on the lines? It's in the stroke twirl down.

[@ECAbrams]

Are there other strokes on the shape? Since I can't see your project file I don't really know what you're doing.

[@MissCreamyCreamy]

thank you so much! This was so useful and easy, and you're so funny :) really, this tutorial made my day ^_^

[@TmksGames]

I could watch your tutorials all day. I hope you buy yourself a slushy or something for my donations :)

[@nicoleamollo5395]

phewx... thanks. i was creating a route from one town to another and this tutorial totally worked.

[@magnumheinneken]

thanks for the tuts mr evan.. it really inspiring

[@ECAbrams]

Well thank you kindly sir. Are margaritas technically slushy?

[@ECAbrams]

I'm finally making good on my new year's resolution :)

[@_buns_]

Awesome dude I always love your tutorials :D

[@ECAbrams]

Have you tried clicking the "toggle switches/modes" button? That toggles that thing you're looking for,

[@ECAbrams]

Hey when I grow up I want to be me too. Everyone starts out at the beginning though so don't feel bad. I'm mostly self taught. Schools are good for meeting people to have beers with and sometimes have sleepovers on so people should still go to school.

[@ECAbrams]

Are you sure it's the path shape you're copying?

[@ECAbrams]

have you tried putting in 0 and just hitting the button?

[@LanaUjdenica]

Awesome tutorial! Very helpful! Thank you!

[@wee-sam]

Thanks for the top notch tutorial!! This is very helpful :)

[@tsekabo9250]

Great tut!! I want to know if i use picture to replace the map, i can't apply the create shapes from vector layers to it?

[@gretaturnbull997]

Worked through the tutorial (absolutely amazing help, thanks!), but my dashed line isn't wrapping correctly around the sphere. For example, when it goes to Australia, you can "See through" the globe back to it being on North America. This makes everything look really confusing. Any things you might try to fix that?

[@MaramAlesayi]

Hello. Great Tut. But I was just wondering if it were possible to create shapes from vector layers in after effects CS5? Thanks

[@サナム-t6r]

How would you do this if you were using an image rather than something like your drawn land from illustrator? how would you apply a stroke to just the outline for the land and also the track matte alpha? still sorta new to after effects so bare with me haha

[@Kutkop345]

haha man, those intro's. love them

[@ECAbrams]

Yeah, probably. Watermelons are pretty light and I'm great at evading even-toed ungulates.

[@ghada4936]

great tutorial !! i loved it, but when i go back to the spinning globe its in black and white! no colors at all. help me please !!

[@NOCTILUCASON]

LOVE YOU!! MASTER!

[@TmksGames]

definitely!

[@Ze6aTV]

nice nice nice ... thank`s your fan from Kuwait !!

[@r_rvmos]

Hey man! I'm working on cs6, but when it comes the moment to copy de trim path keyframes to the position of the "arrow" I get a error message with the numbers (26 :: 269) Is there a way to make this happen? or posibly I'm doing something wrong. Sorry for my english I'm chilean...

[@hojpub]

Every time I think i know a little bit about After Effects I watch one of your tutorials and realize I'm a hack. I want to be you when I grow up. Are you self-taught, or did you go to Adobeland to be taught by the all-powerful wizards?

[@daqs134]

thanks for the tuts.. but sir how do you desphere the map?.. i wanna make a video of a map.. then becomes a globe that spins then become a map again... i hope you can also put up a tutorial for that..

[@ECAbrams]

Dyey Indio so you want a rectangle to wrap around a sphere then unwrap again? You would need to use a different method than what is used in this video or cleverly mesh the techniques used in this video with something else. The bottom line is that it is not easy and it might not look "good".

[@daqs134]

i hope you can do a tutorial about that sir.. from map to sphere, rotate, then map again.. that would be really helpful.. thanks sir evans..

[@日柄巨子]

this is a nice tutorial and neat for learning different effects and thanks for making it but the speed is so fast i had to pause the video 30934857602 times through til i achieved the finished globe...

[@xGunMoll]

Hi, as Sanam Orya3 asked, how would you do this if you were using an image rather than something like your drawn land from illustrator? How would you apply a stroke to just the outline for the land and also the track matte alpha? I tried the Create Shapes from Vector Layer with an image that is not an .ia file and that option is greyed out. Thanks before hand!

[@ECAbrams]

So if something isn't an ai file, or another file with vector information for shapes, Ae can't make shapes out of it. You may have to trace your shapes that you want strokes around.

[@SuperiorFilmGroup]

@ ECAbrams how do i get the option for track matte and normal to the left around the 4:58 marker? I don't have that option currently.

[@mirsjani8604]

Do you believe in divine intervention? Because I do. I had been losing my mind trying to figure out how to animate the elements on a sphere while simultaneously rotating the sphere (similar to how you animated the map and the rotation)! Thank you for an amazing tutorial, yet again!

[@JamesBachmannFilms]

Cool, I love it! :D

[@aaronlee3429]

LOVE YOU!!!

[@SuperiorFilmGroup]

yea figured it out I'm an idiot thanks lol. For some reason I'm not getting the dashes through the arrows. What could be doing wrong?

[@claudiocruz3472]

what is the substitute of "create shapes from vector layer" part if you used a picture of the earth from the interwebz?

[@aaronlee3429]

LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Rochakbhavsar]

Nice Boss! pls... make a tutorial on clone(duplicate character)

[@ECAbrams]

well I made one once. have you seen that one already? It's called "simple cloning Technique" and I throw a football to myself.

[@ChimpEatsBanana]

Woo new tutorial :D

[@xXJaytheGirlXx]

For everyone wondering, after searching for a long time, I finally found some free vector art from illustrator to use, here: www.vecteezy.com/map-vector/229-macdaddy-world (this helps if you don't have the money for illustrator and just need the file!)

[@vivcruickshank6971]

Thank you!!!!

[@ciaramcerlean6926]

+Kristeny Thank you! Saved a lot of time for me :)

[@SuperiorFilmGroup]

Tried a couple different values didn't see any dashes. Soloed the layeres, but i didn't notice anything different

[@ECAbrams]

Like KFC? Glad you enjoy it :)

[@ChimpEatsBanana]

So your new year's resolution is to make more videos?

[@smurfandturfer]

SOO GOOD

[@TrueEvilGamer]

ohhh thanks sorry for not giving i will find a way next time i download ;)

[@SuperiorFilmGroup]

Yea its not working for me. Followed everything you did step by step unless i did something wrong?

[@ejdexer]

Got lost trying to import from illustrator - anytime I import an .ai file it comes in super low quality regardless of the quality in illustrator. Help?

[@ECAbrams]

+Eric Decker well, do you have the continuous rasterization/collapse transformations button checked for the layer?

[@ejdexer]

+ECAbrams being pretty new to this, I would venture to say no followed by a question as to where I can find said button.

[@ECAbrams]

+Eric Decker on every layer on the timeline you should see a shy switch, looks like a little dude looking over a ledge. Then there is also the anti-aliasing switch. Should look like a line, but if you click it it'll be a bent line or a series of squares. Between those is the sunshine icon. That's the one you want, the sunshine looking thing. If you see none of those in the timeline then you need to click the toggle switched/modes button at the bottom.

[@ejdexer]

+ECAbrams Perfect. Got it, thanks for the help.

[@ZEDROLAND]

Do you live in the rat lands? looks tropical and noice

[@ECAbrams]

I don't know what a "rat lands" is but at the time of filming I was on the island of St. Vincent.

[@MultiSciGeek]

Thanks a lot

[@TrueEvilGamer]

you have to pay for the project file ? :/

[@Bespeakmel]

your inside arrows became useless with water layer above them. yes? wouldn't you want to take down opacity or something? ps - love your tutorials, even though i can no longer handle watching anyone else's.

[@ECAbrams]

+Melanie Ruiz that might be the case, but you can choose the order of your layers. I don't think anyone is forced to have arrows under water no?

[@ECAbrams]

i hope there is a fist bump and explosion behind that!

[@TrueEvilGamer]

i would as well but i don't have a credit card so it's kinda complicated for me to download since i am under 18

[@ChimpEatsBanana]

Haha, well I don't mind weekly videos :P

[@BlackSkyoo7]

`Good to know :)

[@BlackSkyoo7]

Do you think you can lift a watermelon whilst a girrafe chases you around a circus?

[@anasalmasry7253]

okey I admit it, That was nice :P

[@Nioki1000]

Can you help me i can't stick water path to anithing, when i grab it cursor changing to circle with cross like this www.clker.com/cliparts/Z/Z/S/Y/S/w/red-circle-cross-transparent-background-hi.png but black.

[@ECAbrams]

I'm not sure I follow what's going on. You want to move a path of some kind. Is this a shape layer path?

[@Nioki1000]

Yes shape layer "water" path

[@Nioki1000]

ass you said we must stick shape layer "water" path to everything

[@ECAbrams]

So I think we're just parenting things together. have you perhaps locked that layer by accident?

[@Nioki1000]

Explain me how are you copy shape layer "water" path to pre comp spining globe. Because when i copy it and then creating musk in pre comp spining glob it has shape of rectangle.

[@grayroger]

u look like Collie Buddz with the shades on

[@cachorromcaco]

Learn time!

[@ellencolombini]

I find your work amazing and I wanna thank you for your tutorials, they helped and inspired me to do this video: /watch?v=kmkrsta4MEs thanks a lot!! love you! ♥