There have been various posts on forums over the years asking how to make a mirror ball. This seamlessly looping version uses Cycore’s CC Sphere, Fractal Noise, Grid, 4-Color Gradient and Trapcode’s Shine. I’ve added comments to various layers, of particular interest is how to make the Grid effect line up evenly with the block-style Fractal. Download project
The Foundry has released 3D Camera Tracker and Kronos, two exciting new plug-ins for Adobe After Effects.
Alexander of Amateurmedia.net has created a stylish new font named Typograph Pro. Also check some of the great usage examples created within Cinema 4D.
Red Giant Software has released Colorista 2, with some exciting new features and improvements. Use motionworks10 for a 1o% discount.
Fontfeed.com has an excellent column “Screenfonts” which discusses the use of fonts in movie posters.
Industrial Light and Magic has a new site. It’s quite amazing just how many productions ILM has been involved in.
Urban Dirty has terrific free grunge stock images and also provides color themes for various images with a downloadable .ASE file. You can import the .ASE file into After Effects using Swatch You Want.
22 Responses to this post
January 28, 2007 at 6:25 pm |
Excellent.
January 28, 2007 at 8:31 pm |
This is great
thanx
January 29, 2007 at 3:29 am |
“Mr. Amazing” strikes again!!! Great job John. This opens the door to a lot of other ideas. THANKS!
January 29, 2007 at 1:38 pm |
Way to go John! Thanks!
January 30, 2007 at 12:47 pm |
FAAAABULOUS JOHN!!
January 31, 2007 at 10:42 pm |
great stuff mate
February 17, 2007 at 3:54 am |
Your work is fantastic.I’ve got a result almost nice as yours,but there was a problem with expression thisComp.layer(“cc sphere 2″).transform.scale.After effects report error.Any ideo what I’m doing worg?Thank you!
February 17, 2007 at 11:55 am |
It sounds like the link is broken. Did you change the name of Layer 4? JD
February 17, 2007 at 10:46 pm |
Problem solved.Now everything works fine.Thank you very much!!!!
February 27, 2007 at 1:33 am |
Awesome
April 2, 2007 at 5:57 am |
thank you
May 8, 2007 at 3:34 am |
I can’t make it work man, i don’t know what’s the problem, but
doesn’t run, i’m using after effects 7, and when i try tu open it my after fx says that couldn’t be opened and it will close, and it crashes down, i tried a lot and there is no results, what may cause this?????? HEEEEELP PLEASE
May 9, 2007 at 9:12 am |
Hi Rodo, I’m not sure. Did you delete your preferences and try again? Do you have the correct plug-ins installed?
May 18, 2007 at 10:40 am |
Thanks so much, this is great. Is there any suggestions on a way I can substitute the shine plugin with the standard effects? Thanks!
May 18, 2007 at 11:14 am |
Hi Daynor, The CC Radial Fast Blur effect is a good substitute. You could also try CC Radial Blur or just the standard Radial Blur effect set to Zoom.
October 3, 2007 at 11:11 pm |
Hi
I found your rainbow mirror ball image as a .jpg and have used it in combo with a photo of our singing group for a draft of a mardi gras show promo. I just use paintshop pro to do my pathetic efforts at graphics but the 84kb graphic I downloaded is too low res for anything but a little image and the .aep file is a format I cant use (I dont think). Is it possible to get the image as a jpeg but a bit higher res?
Thanks, Cath
February 2, 2008 at 2:55 pm |
Hi,
Id like to use your image as a background for my cd cover. If you can make me a version with the mirrorball the same size but with a much larger canvas I will pay you for it! Let me know. Thanks heaps
DJ Dee
November 21, 2009 at 10:52 am |
Big Thanks from France…
November 23, 2009 at 11:40 pm |
cool! it sounds very well, creating such efx is interesting and challenging.thank u.
November 24, 2009 at 2:22 pm |
You’re welcome aasish02.
May 12, 2010 at 2:31 am |
I love it!!!you’re great!
kisses from Italy
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