Orbit Animation in After Effects | After Effects Tutorial

hey how it's going guys I'm kishan from a machine and in this software tutorial I will show you how to create this orbit animation so let's get started okay guys I have this illustrator file you guys can download this illustrator file from the link in the description okay after you download just drag and drop into the project panel just like that and this will give us this composition panel I'm gonna select this import kind as the composition and the footage Dimension let's keep the layer size and hit ok now I'm gonna just double click this will open the composition and as you can see we have two layers one it's the moon and the other one is the earth okay and make sure your main planet in the middle of the composition if not you can just select this and then go to align tool you can find the line tool in the windows panel okay and align it using the line tool just like that so it in the dead center let's start with the animate in the mood now convert this layers into 3D and then let's add a camera so I'm gonna go here and right click new camera and let's go with two Note camera and with a 35 millimeter preset and with these settings I'm gonna hit ok now I'm gonna add a orbit now so let's select this camera right click go to camera and here we can find this create orbit now so I'm gonna select this as you can see after it created a orbit now now I'm gonna parent the main Earth layer to this orbital so let's select this Earth layer and if you don't see this parent and Link you can right click go to columns and find this parent and Link and I'm gonna just equip this to this orbit now just like that now let's animate the orbit null so I'm gonna go to zero second let's select this orbital and hit r on your keyboard so this will bring the or the rotation properties and here I'm gonna animate the Y rotation just like that in the zero second let let's create a new keyprint and go to two second Mark and I'm gonna rotate this by 360 Degrees basically one and as you can see this will go full 360 degrees and I'm let's go to 2 second and press n on your keyboard in the composition here now as you can see it's not the perfect so let's fix it I'm gonna do some adjustment to the orbit now so let's select this open now or give some rotation to the Moon we can play with the c rotation so I'm gonna just position the C rotation right there and you can also just place the moon wherever you like so I'm gonna just place it somewhere around here perfect I think little bit floss to that so I'm gonna just select the moon and bring the X position here so it's a little bit far away from the Earth yeah I think that's perfect now as you can see moon is not facing the camera we can fix it by using the transform property so I'm gonna select this mode and right click go to transform and find this autorient option click this here we can select this Orient towards camera option so I'm gonna select this and hit OK as you can see then please select that option that Moon layer always face in the camera like that this will give us that big orbit animation okay perfect now let's also add some background so I'm gonna add a solid right click new solid let's go this PG and hit OK let's bring this down and we don't need to see the orbit now anymore so I'm gonna close this up and select this PG now go to effect and preset and search for radio ramp and I'm gonna just double click the gradient RAM and set the ram shape to radial ramp and I will put this slide a little bit it down like that and let's set the in color to something darker so I'm gonna go with this blue Vista color yeah something like that and you can also increase the ram shutter to remove that band as you can see you can fix it by increasing the ram shutter okay and I'm gonna go with a 500 Ram shutter and yeah I think this should fix it yeah and that's how you create this orbit animation I hope you learned something new from this quick tutorial if you have any question let me know as always thank you so much for watching and thank you so much for the picture support assessor I see you guys in the next one peace

Channel: AeMachine

Views: 31,187

Keywords: after effects, after effects tutorial, planet animation, 2d planet animation, adobe after effects, orbit, orbit animation, planet rotation, after effects animation, after effect, animation, motion graphics, 2d animation

Id: 9dfR2E6Q7eg

Length: 4min 58sec (298 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 18 2023