Creating an Eclipse in After Effects, Part 1
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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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
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