Solar Atmosphere Tutorial

[@ReadySetGoPictures]

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!

[@DopeAdministrator]

Kevor Studios Because he's secretly a god! Lol

[@Kvodan]

Its awesome that you began to make regular tuts. Keep going!

[@iLAMV]

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

[@SeunJubril]

Everything Video Copilot puts out is beautiful. You guys rock. You rock, Andrew Kramer.

[@IndependentVFX]

What a great tutorial! And great humor within the first minute in typical Andrew Kramer style

[@CrankLucas]

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.

[@flythedragon1559]

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.

[@andrewnyberg5726]

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!

[@fruce8119]

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...

[@AlfnCrafts]

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.

[@EGOKILLS]

The glow part was a game finisher for me....

[@thebrandonkm]

Great tutorial! Also, even before you gave the shout out to Ryan, I started singing the Turbulent Displace song XD

[@Medienmechaniker]

I know how you feel :D

[@SmooothFx]

TURBULENT DISP:ACEMENT! TURBULENT DISPLACEMENT! :D

[@tonymontana3644]

"We get the knowledge,...they get skin cancer"lolol I immediately thumbs up'ed and sub'd \m/

[@erdemoz2187]

did exactly the same! lol

[@lamjiajun3579]

my god that cracks me up.

[@SongADayPodcast]

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 KZbin!

[@xEnder686x]

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.

[@bprater]

Love watching his tutorials. This guy is a freaking motion graphics genius.

[@videopro__]

Watching this in 2024 and this still amazinggg !! Can’t wait to see what you have for us ! 🎉

[@darryllee4466]

if youve been watching movies 10 years ago no need to be surpised :D

[@natazer]

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!

[@RANDO-M-USIC]

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 ^^"

[@Thysta]

I'm addicted to your channel man.

[@The3DSMaxinator]

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

[@karltissen178]

helped me so much, was stuck on after effects trying to make a sun and this was my savour

[@swiszcz93]

You've done it again Andrew...beautiful work!

[@CBSuper]

Just awesome and amazing how quickly you put it all together. Thanks for posting.

[@Hadeseffect]

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)

[@VicCross]

+Hadeseffect Thank you LOL, that was really frustrating.

[@The_Knife]

THX MATE!

[@andrewnyberg5726]

Nope, that didnt work for me :(

[@sean.sullivan]

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!

[@catbunny8713]

@@sean.sullivan got this problem now, did u figure it out?

[@JinWang]

This is truly awesome! Thanks for the hard work and the willingness of sharing your knowledge and experience.

[@TheOmegaKiller]

You're the best Andrew! Thank you for your FANTASTIC tutorials!

[@TrentisN]

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.

[@Kineticartist]

dang thats a damn fine idea there

[@VitaminchikD]

with every tutorial you show possibilities of AE become more and more wide... thanks. VitaminD ;)

[@LucidOrdinance]

Alright, bud. I'm sold. I'll learn freakin after effects now.This info is too good to pass up.

[@nedstudios6490]

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.

[@HDTutorialsItalia]

Here in Italy it's 2.10 a.m. This is probably the best sun in a long time XD

[@dasciuri]

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

[@dasciuri]

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.

[@xEnder686x]

dasciuri Thank you for this.

[@shawnmicheal5256]

dasciuri value + lookat (thisComp.activeCamera.toWorld ([0,0,0]), position) [0] After Effects warning: syntax error Exspression disabled. how to fix it?

[@zeus82835]

HDtutorials sei il migliore!

[@rickkmurray]

This tutorials effect was used in an episode of Voltron :P great tutorial as always ;)

[@p003872]

It was about time you made a new sound pack, thanks!

[@ryanchng1983]

haha yes! this is the most sun i gotten in weeks! Great tutorial btw, looking forward to more of your tutorials.

[@Alexzvd]

We need more tutorials from you!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ringebretsen]

Awesome stuff Andrew! Testing this out first thing tomorrow at the office :) Thanks for great inspiration and tips!

[@aeplug-aftereffectstutoria9210]

Your lessons seem to be from the gods! I studied at your site!

[@kevyntc1144]

Andrew, you are good at what you do - amazing designs.

[@Ramp10er]

The best looking sun I have ever seen...

[@ModeratelyOtaku]

It's our plugin, we're going to plug it. :D Excellent tutorial as always!

[@rhatcher010]

9:49 Inadvertent Cylon Base Star reference. Great vid. Very helpful.

[@silvercosta2712]

The king's After Effects!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@businesstycoon]

Thanks, this is really cool. Grid is fantastic as well, I hope to see more new tutorials!

[@dasciuri]

value+lookAt(thisComp.activeCamera.toWor­ld([0,0,0]),position)[0] Afer Effects warning: syntax error Exspression disabled.

[@htDIYcrafts]

Why this syntax so you can not use.Who are not only helping yourself thanks

[@dasciuri]

"toWor-­ld" correggi "toWor­ld"

[@htDIYcrafts]

dasciuri Oh! Okay thank you. :))

[@Toymit]

I get this warning too..

[@Toymit]

Toy Mit OK I didnt realise the word 'world' copied like this..'wor-ld'.

[@tomasdabasinskas8977]

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.

[@kensuke6992]

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！！

[@vincentpzietsman9683]

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.

[@WonderTechie]

you are always so much resourceful Andrew, thank you so much for the video.

[@justinfernandes113]

Andrew Kramer knows after effects more than Adobe itself!!

[@tbehnert]

I like Tutorials w/o other plugins .. keep doing this! :)

[@cymaticvisuals]

For 2019 users, apply Fast Box blur instead of Radial Fast blur to ensure no clipping :)

[@Dansoo]

Awesome tutorial as always Andrew :)

[@RealFredX]

I'm with you...The night time is the right time.

[@izikadmon196]

wooh that was hard but crazy cool effect! thank u!

[@bobchinsky6796]

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.

[@vrubelart1519]

Great tutorial. Thank You so much for Your work!

[@rahuldeshpande9997]

Learned so much! Thank you Andrew!

[@theprince207]

thank you so much for this tutorial its helping me learn after effects and really get the the knowledge of the effects

[@prorobo]

I would absolutely go to see Andrew Kramer do stand up. Hilarious and awesome! Hilariously awesome!

[@danielscott173]

I like the torch layer!!

[@Monoriss]

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.

[@wiseprod]

So cool !!!!!!!I'll try this effect in one of my videos. Thank you

[@expertfx]

U r always awesome ! :) :D

[@ssaishriram7834]

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

[@ТалантыкультурыЧР]

Kramer& You best! I like you tutorials

[@Legacyreload]

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..

[@JonSteingard]

Awesome tutorial. Thanks so much guys!

[@HOSKRMEJIA]

Awesome bro.... Kramer President !!!!

[@qwertyui71306]

It's magic! Great Talent! Compliments! :)

[@RANDO-M-USIC]

@Video Copilot Thank you very much for your tutorial!! I was able to create a planet in Adobe After Effects! I know that the quality isn't the best .. but for me as a beginner .. i'm happy with my result ^^

[@baddream56]

Yes yes yeeeeeeeeees, universe and after fx r one, mr cramer u r awsome, just do more stuff about space....!

[@xEnder686x]

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.

[@wirewheely1]

This finally worked for me. I had 3 ccsphere effects on one fractal. Apply it to the main layer in comp only.

[@julian_pp]

Amazing tutorial mate, great job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@xxxlittleGremlinxxx]

AAAAHHHH! THIS WAS AWESOME! I'M SO THANKFUL! Thanks!

[@tommydimmel1914]

Seriously awesome tutorial! Thank you!

[@dinapuspasari3162]

i love learn from your video, thank you so much

[@andreatulimiero7802]

"We get the knowledge " Right !!

[@David_Burgess27]

Think I'm going to give this a shot!

[@PaolaTVChannel]

Love your work. Exellent tutorial

[@kunalagarwal711]

VIDEO_COPILOT and SIR Andrew Kramer...ROCK!!! 3rd Rock from the Sun :-p

[@YubisSmileStudio]

I love Video Copilot. and Andrew Cramer😜👍

[@onecut1000]

Can't wait to build this…..

[@thefrostbitesk]

This is art ! :)

[@silvercosta2712]

O rei do After Effects!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Sharmajicamerawale]

ur best Andrew,ur Adobe's Superkid

[@TheMagista88]

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.

[@BuddyandCharlie]

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". "*

[@DigitalInertia]

that was my question! Thanks!

[@BuddyandCharlie]

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.

[@WilliamGarrisonArts]

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.

[@TsarIoann]

Definitely I liked the tutorial! =)

[@AeroSport103]

Good stuff! Thanks for posting.

[@spikedesignworks]

awesome tutorial

[@12345669998]

great tutorial guys

[@DopeAdministrator]

Template used for VFX in our music cover video! Thanks, Andrew & team @ VCP! Here's to all you Knife Party fans! kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4bUimmHmZp6m5I kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4G2hZSfhrJjlaM

[@WebSoak]

This will be perfect for my 55CencriE stop motion :)

[@Wosser1sProductions]

Awesome tutorial. Also 0:44, as a programmer I can relate.

[@whootoo1117]

very cool tut, THANKS!!

[@miguelibarrafotograma]

great tutorial!!!

[@jmvision1012]

Totally awesome!!

[@johnmitchell9431]

Andrew your my man, you do an awesome job. my only push back would be that in some of your steps you do not explain how your doing what you are doing. example for the expressions part your not telling us how you brought up the expressions notepad for us to copy and paste it. Im still knew to after effects but i am progressing and watching your videos truly help me. so if you could walk us through your videos with a little more of step by step's that would be perfect. thank you Andrew.

[@EthanChantx]

great video, using only built in plug ins suprised me, im a tad bit late lol but loved it!

[@micah4551]

Great video!

[@rohit-3570]

wow , nice work

[@yolosologuy2932]

Following you to get some quality sun