3D Orbit FX

Posted by on Aug 24, 2010 in Blog | 8 comments

orbit

I found some time to play around with the powerful 3D Orbit preset and a free icon pack.  I created small groups of Icons that were linked to a Null Object and then after making 6 groups, I used the 3D orbit preset to control the smaller spinning groups with a larger spinning group. Similar to how the moon orbits the earth and our earth orbits the sun. ( and our sun of course orbits William Shatner.

Now, I also used expressions to offset the the layers in each group so the icons did not overlap each other like in this tutorial.  Then by animating the values of the orbit preset as well as the scale and rotation of the Null Objects, you can come up with some fun stuff.   I also set the layers “Auto-Orient Towards Camera” so they would not turn into flat paper and collapse the universe.

Now if it still doesn’t look good… just add some lens flares and take the rest of the day off! That’s what I did, CYA :)

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8 Comments

  1. Cool vid but I have a question… You talked about quick matte a while ago..I wanted to know if you were going to release it..

  2. You should let me be your apprentice!?

  3. It’s simple and cool effect overall. I bet A.K just spent a coffee break to get this done. Lol.. or maybe sooner?

  4. not at all what I expected when I saw “Orbit FX” but still very useful ;)
    Thanks Andrew

  5. Paulo, besides the light saber preset which presets do not work for you in cs5?

  6. Thanks for always helping us out. We seriously owe you alot of money…

  7. whats up with the layers over-crossing @ around 9secs?

    besides that, sweet effect

  8. i want to ask you if you are going to make the presets for cs5…. if you do when? thxs all your tutorials helped me a lot you are the best!