Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Use After Effects to take your Astrophotography to a whole new level!
If you're a photographer looking to create a gallery of your space images, you'll be able to show your viewers a completely new way to view your galaxies and nebulae, giving a sense of how they look from all directions.
If you're interested in using After Effects for VR / 360 / immersive videos, I walk you through all the steps needed and share a few tips to help you get started!
The first steps are setting up a VR Environment, then I make a precomp to hold a nebula image. And then we turn that precomp into an Essential Graphic, allowing you to reuse it for each of your images. With everything set up, I then show how to place each picture in 3D space and then render the video, including making sure it's tagged as VR for YouTube.
*See the 360 gallery in action:*
YouTube: youtu.be/hRfzj-yPm9U
My website: shiveringcactus.net/skydome
My first collab with @Astrobloke is available here: youtu.be/5_rwB8ORrac
*Get ShiveringCactus VFX as phone cases, T-shirts, mugs: redbubble.com/people/ShiveringCactus/shop*
*Or buy me a coffee: ko-fi.com/shiveringcactus*
NASA's Milky Way: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4851
Panoraven's website: panoraven.com
*Project download: dropbox.com/s/b3uh0ka2umfn4kk/360%20Space%20Gallery.zip?dl=1*
#AfterEffects #Tutorial #astrophotography
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00:00 What we're makin'
01:13 VR Environment
03:01 Right Ascension and Declination
04:57 Essential Graphics precomp
09:13 Placing your images in 360 space
12:14 VR Render settings
I'm an Adobe Community Expert - which means you can find me on the Adobe forums if you need any help. community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects/ct-p/ct-after-effects?page=1&sort=latest_replies&lang=all&tabid=all
#AdobeCommunityExperts
Use After Effects to take your Astrophotography to a whole new level!
If you're a photographer looking to create a gallery of your space images, you'll be able to show your viewers a completely new way to view your galaxies and nebulae, giving a sense of how they look from all directions.
If you're interested in using After Effects for VR / 360 / immersive videos, I walk you through all the steps needed and share a few tips to help you get started!
The first steps are setting up a VR Environment, then I make a precomp to hold a nebula image. And then we turn that precomp into an Essential Graphic, allowing you to reuse it for each of your images. With everything set up, I then show how to place each picture in 3D space and then render the video, including making sure it's tagged as VR for YouTube.
*See the 360 gallery in action:*
YouTube: youtu.be/hRfzj-yPm9U
My website: shiveringcactus.net/skydome
My first collab with @Astrobloke is available here: youtu.be/5_rwB8ORrac
*Get ShiveringCactus VFX as phone cases, T-shirts, mugs: redbubble.com/people/ShiveringCactus/shop*
*Or buy me a coffee: ko-fi.com/shiveringcactus*
NASA's Milky Way: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4851
Panoraven's website: panoraven.com
*Project download: dropbox.com/s/b3uh0ka2umfn4kk/360%20Space%20Gallery.zip?dl=1*
#AfterEffects #Tutorial #astrophotography
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
00:00 What we're makin'
01:13 VR Environment
03:01 Right Ascension and Declination
04:57 Essential Graphics precomp
09:13 Placing your images in 360 space
12:14 VR Render settings
I'm an Adobe Community Expert - which means you can find me on the Adobe forums if you need any help. community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects/ct-p/ct-after-effects?page=1&sort=latest_replies&lang=all&tabid=all
#AdobeCommunityExperts
