Photoshop CC 3D Spaceship Orbiting the Earth Animation
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:48 Setup and Make Earth Sphere
How you can use a "blue marble" texture map from NASA and wrap it around a sphere
2:45: Import the Ship Model
How to find and choose a model on Turbosquid.com
Also how to duplicate the model and make a dummy ship model which will be used later as an invisible counter balance to the ship
5:43 Merge the 3D layers
6:24 Modify the Ship Objects
How to texture the Ship from the diffuse, specular, illumination, and bump files provided with the model.
How to resize and relocate the ship and the dummy ship so they
are at equal distances from earth and their axis of rotation will be at the center of the earth when we group them later.
11:14 Group the Ship Objects
12:01 Animate the Earth
Animate a full 360 degree rotation of the Earth solely using the dimension degrees column in the object's properties panel. You can also use this method for any clock-wise animation.
15:53 Animate the Ship
Animate a full 360 degree counter-clockwise rotation of the grouped ship objects.
21:36 Add the Starfield Background
23:00 Final Tweaks
24:28 Make the Animation Loop-Friendly
How to turn on the frame number setting.
How to trim the animation and the Starfield using the Trim at Playhead timeline setting, so that the ending video will be loop friendly.
26:23 Render the Video.
How use the orbit tool to tilt the view so that the animation appears to be looking slightly downward onto the ship.
28:07 How to Make a Known Number of Loops Inside the timeline
If you know how may loops you want. Demonstration on how to include 2 loops in the animation.
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In this Photoshop CC tutorial I will show you how to use Photoshop's 3D features to create a video of a space ship revolving around the Earth.
The ship will be revolving in a different direction than the Earth.
I also will show you how to make the 3d animation, loop friendly.
This procedure will also work for other objects such as a moon orbiting a planet.
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This video was made for instructional and educational purposes. In it I teach people how to use Adobe Photoshop to make interesting designs. No copyrighted materials were used in this video.
*Image Attributions:
Earth texture map (choose the 1280x640 version)
File:1280px-Land_ocean_ice_cloud_hires.jpg
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Starfield by seriousfun
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*Music Attribution:
"Heart of Nowhere" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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