Creating an Eclipse in After Effects, Part 1

CATEGORIES: After Effects, Tutorials | J. Schuh | May 05, 2009

In the first part of this two-part project tutorial, J. Schuh demonstrates how he creates a bright sun and then blocks it out in part 2.

There is a final version of this Eclipse project available for download here.

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Cool Stuff Jay.

Comment by Aaron Glendenning | May 6, 2009 @ 9:50 am

er …J. Heh

Comment by Aaron Glendenning | May 6, 2009 @ 9:51 am

Only plays the first few minutes then cuts to the layers ad.

Comment by Steve | May 7, 2009 @ 2:47 pm

This is my first tutorial attempted…so far, so good. Thanks!

Comment by Victor Noda | May 9, 2009 @ 10:32 am

Does anyone know where Part 2 of this set of tutorials is?

Comment by Victor Noda | May 9, 2009 @ 10:38 am

where is the second part of the video

Comment by will | May 9, 2009 @ 6:14 pm

hey its cool man…………….

Comment by sandip | May 9, 2009 @ 11:31 pm

Hey Jay – thanks that is very very cool. But I’ve got a question. When I’m scrubbing the playhead to view the comp my circle turns into a square! Is there a setting I can change?
Thanks! Deb

Comment by Debbie | May 12, 2009 @ 6:36 pm

nice baby

Comment by seenu from andra | May 13, 2009 @ 4:00 am

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wonderfull tutorial very nice thanks for sharing
keep it up

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Thank you so much…
That was very coooool..

Comment by DoEds | August 21, 2009 @ 4:01 am

deb i have the same problem, when scrubing through the animation the circle turns into a square, any1 got a solution

Comment by Mark Leroy | August 27, 2009 @ 12:12 pm

Great Tutorial but after I rendered it was almost 400 MB in size (avi). Seems huge for 10 seconds. An episode of Star Trek is 350 MB. I did add another Lens Flare but seems that shouldn’t make it so big.

Comment by Charlie | September 27, 2009 @ 12:28 pm

This is my first tutorial attempted…so far, so good. Thanks

Comment by venkatareddy | December 27, 2009 @ 6:55 am

so thanks for tutorial,I’m beginner for remedial education passable ok.Sorry I’m a little english…Thank You…

Comment by Serdar Keskin | January 13, 2010 @ 9:01 pm

so thanks for tutorial,I’m beginner for remedial education passable ok.Sorry I’m a little speak english…Thank You…

Comment by serdar keskin | January 13, 2010 @ 9:10 pm

i’ve attempted this project/tutorial several times absolutely step-by-step and my results are ‘nothing’ like whats demostrated here. I appreciate the tutorials and the inspiration, but i wonder why the ‘project’ files being 1/10 the size of the sample video aren’t also made availible, i suspect a bug.. but the project files would/could rule that out…

Comment by WDBell | March 7, 2010 @ 4:42 pm

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