My version of the Videocopilot Earth Zoom

In my continuing efforts to put Northern Ireland on the visual effects map, I thought I'd take a literal approach ;o)

There are a lot of great Earth zoom effects out there, but I haven't seen any from Belfast, so I thought I'd give it a go.

For anyone wanting to try something similar, be sure to bookmark the following resources:

http://www.dpbolvw.net/click-3535718-10652673

http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/create-a-stormy-electric-typ...

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/earth_zoom/

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[mrcooban]

Yeah I wish there were more VFX opportunities in Northern Ireland

[planetmirth2001]

@mrcooban Maybe one day :-)

[cocobirdcoco]

had to watch this again, its the best version i've seen!

Faves!

[planetmirth2001]

Thanks cocobirdcoco, much appreciated. There were a few things that I wasn't happy with about this version - so I uploaded a"Planetmirth Earth Zoom - version 2" which is slightly better. I did do a version 3 which corrects the "sidewinder ducks" - but I think two versions of the same effect is enough, so I don't think I'll upload it ;-)

Thanks again.

[Rulitop]

awesome!!!...I'll try to do somethign like this...maybe in the next weeks...looks really god!

[planetmirth2001]

Thanks Rulitop. The video reply above fixed a couple of things that didn't quite work in this version. Apart from the ducks, which still fly sideways - I have fixed them, but didn't want to post 3 versions of the same effect :-)

[planetmirth2001]

@LiinxFTW Thank you so much for rating and commenting. There's no denying Adobe After Effects is a wonderful application :-)

[planetmirth2001]

Hi All,

Finally created and uploaded a new, and hopefully improved version, it's called Planetmirth Earth Zoom - Version 2.

I added a few cars that no-one - except possibly GmuesFilm will see ;-)

I've substituted a helicopter for the glider & replaced the Jet with a better perspective one. I've also tried to improve the timings so that they appear at better intervals.

The only other change was to remove the motion blur - not sure if that was a good idea or not. Let me know what you think.

[planetmirth2001]

Many thanks VFXTests. I always try to add something new to the basic tuts - great as they are. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

The differences I think that worked best were my use of CCSphere on an unwrapped Earth texture and two cloud layers - instead of one still Earth with the clouds combined.

The changes that may or may now be better were that I made mine a lot slower, with less motion blur & obviously all different images.

And I think we all know the differences that didn't work ;-)

[VFXTests]

good job!

there are so many people who just take a tutorial from videocopilot and make something bad out of it but this was even better than the original! (apart from the perspective of the jet ;-) )