Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
A preview of my Breakin' Earth tutorial, all made in #AfterEffects.
This is a different view of the effects, to show the night side.
Tutorial Part 1: youtu.be/LzchoPyT6bI
Tutorial Part 2: youtu.be/f2vNi4DUKa8
Tutorial Part 3: youtu.be/cwiDR73mVI0
#Shorts #BlackHole
A preview of my Breakin' Earth tutorial, all made in #AfterEffects.
This is a different view of the effects, to show the night side.
Tutorial Part 1: youtu.be/LzchoPyT6bI
Tutorial Part 2: youtu.be/f2vNi4DUKa8
Tutorial Part 3: youtu.be/cwiDR73mVI0
#Shorts #BlackHole
![Create Realistic Planetary Rings in After Effects | No Plugins Needed!
Tutorial showing how to take advantage of the Advanced 3D Renderer to add a ring to world.
You’ll learn how to:
• Build a procedural ring using Fractal Noise and Polar Coordinates
• Add fake shadows and lighting that respond to your scene (older versions of AE, not needed for the latest release)
• Use CC Particle World to simulate rock-filled space rings
• Create realistic shadow interactions between your ring and planet (older versions of AE, not needed for the latest release)
🎁 Bonus: Free step-by-step PDF guide in the description!
This video builds on my earlier tutorial, where I showed how to create your own planets directly in After Effects, building up the textures and exporting them to use with a 3D wavefront OBJ file. Following on from that project, we now get to take advantage of the planet being in 3D space by adding a 2.5D comp of a ring system and have it loop around our sphere. But if you want to go further and depict the rocks that make up the rings, then I also demonstrate how to use the included CC Particle World to create hundreds of particles of rock images and have them surround the planet. But because that doesnt loop correctly, I have also made and shared a hemisphere you can use to create a 3D Luma Matte for the particles so that they appear to go behind the planet.
*⬇️ Downloads*
Planet Project Download: https://ko-fi.com/s/3bac105534
Full Project Download: https://ko-fi.com/s/0376a07c14
3D Hemisphere model: https://ko-fi.com/s/3114dcdc50
Text version (PDF): https://ko-fi.com/s/0f4909b9fd
Create ANY PLANET in After Effects tutorial: https://youtu.be/wWtaAxRsPWQ
Quick cheats to make your videos look amazing: https://youtu.be/x87pSAExIF4
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*💻 Expressions*
CC Particle World Code:
Position X:
CODE START
x=thisComp.layer(Emitter).transform.position[0]-thisComp.width/2;
x/thisComp.width;
CODE END
Position Y:
CODE START
y=thisComp.layer(Emitter).transform.position[1]-thisComp.height/2;
y/thisComp.width;
CODE END
Position Z:
CODE START
z=thisComp.layer(Emitter).transform.position[2];
z/thisComp.width;
CODE END
Angle the ring shadow away from the Sun (add to Z rotation):
CODE START
var light = thisComp.layer(Sun).toWorld([0, 0, 0]) // name of your light layer
var planet = thisComp.layer(Planet NULL).toWorld(thisComp.layer(Planet NULL).anchorPoint);
var dir = light - planet;
radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(dir[0], dir[2])) + 180;
CODE END
Random frame expression:
CODE START
random(0,4)/30
CODE END
Emitter expression:
CODE START
var L = thisComp.layer(Emitter position);
L.toWorld([0,0,0])
CODE END
*🔖Chapters*
00:00 If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it.
02:10 Ring texture
05:46 Faking shadows
10:50 CC Particle Rocks
18:06 Finishing touches
Asteroids Pack (rocky version) (https://skfb.ly/o6LEo) by SebastianSosnowski is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Toutatis asteroid - potential Earth`s impactor (https://skfb.ly/otuGt) by SebastianSosnowski is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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