Inside the Nebulae – tutorial and AE project

An imagination of flying in the gas clouds of space. Actual images of nebulas taken with the Hubble space telescope were combined in After Effects with CG gas clouds and stars made using Trapcode Form and Starglow.

Tutorial:

Download AE CS5 project file

Space Swirls

Download this project for After Effects CS4 and later: space_swirls_CS4.aep

Swirls made using Trapcode Particular using two lights as emitters and one instance of Particular. Expressions guide the lights on a wiggled helical path, the camera follows.

Music: intro from "Medicine" by cirKus:
myspace.com/​cirkus