Create a World Traveler Animation to Show Where in the World You’ve Been

Create a World Traveler Animation to Show Where in the World You’ve Been

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In today’s tutorial, we’ll be taking a look at mapping layers accurately upon a sphere, then we’ll create a line that travels between the mapped layers using expressions. Because of the 2.5D nature of After Effects, there are some interesting technical challenges to solve along the way.


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  • Ran Ben Avraham

    Very nicely done!

  • Hyde Zhong

    very useful

  • http://www.facebook.com/playplaynirmal Nagesh Kandel

    I learned a lot after this one…
    Thanks.. for making us familiar with the abilities of After Effects…
    Very Useful,..

  • http://twitter.com/Dennis_Habers Dennis Habers

    This video was really helpfull. Thanks Jorrit for your help. Keep it going

  • http://www.facebook.com/basile.manrique Basile Manrique

    Really good tutorial,
    but I have a little problem :
    when I have to put this part of the code :
    try{….
    ….
    }catch(err){from}

    It gave me an error saying ‘global’ class has no property or method named “from”
    Anybody around to help me ?

  • Guest

    Really good tutorial,
    but I have a little problem :
    when I have to put this part of the code :
    try{….
    ….
    }catch(err){from}

    It gave me an error saying ‘global’ class has no property or method named “from”
    Anybody around to help me ?

  • Basile Manrique

    Really good tutorial,
    but I have a little problem :
    when I have to put this part of the code :
    try{….
    ….
    }catch(err){from}

    It gave me an error saying ‘global’ class has no property or method named “from”
    Anybody around to help me ?

    • Jorrit Schulte
      Author

      Not sure, something probably went wrong while writing the from variable. maybe you forgot the ; symbol at the end?

  • Mark Yoko

    nice tutorial! thanks! very useful!

  • Jeff Poteau

    Great tutorial,

    but i, also have a problem with this part of the code

    try{
    num = Math.floor(effect(“Marker”)(“Slider”));
    m = effect(“Marker”)(“Slider”) – num;
    from = [thisComp.layer(num+"").transform.xRotation, thisComp.layer(num+"").transform.yRotation, 0];
    to = [thisComp.layer(num+1+"").transform.xRotation, thisComp.layer(num+1+"").transform.yRotation, 0];
    linear(m, from, to)
    }catch(err){from}

    it gave me an error….’global’ class has no property or method named “from”….it occurs each time i type in (num+”").

    Please help, i don’t know what i’m doing wrong

  • Alex B.

    Amazing!!!…Thanks a lot.
    Is there a way to link a pic to the null-Layer “Traveler”? just linking does not succeed.

  • Jojo Garfunkel

    Great tutorial! Very useful!
    I had an error “No Active Camera” while adding expression to Far Vanish. The problem was solved
    with changing “activeCamera” to “layer(“Camera 1″)” in the expression.
    So, here is the result:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1zBhqlYNWE
    Tons of Thanks)

  • kangyu

    i have a problem, The particle is always random jitter,after i make animation camera ,How to solve

  • Imraan Allie

    Great tutorial however I can’t seem to get pass the first part lol (sigh)

    typing in the first expression below word for word as you have it in the tutorial

    value + [0,0, thisComp.layer("Earth").effect("Element")("Size")*25]

    I get the following error

    After Effects warning: Class ‘effect’ has no property or method named ‘size’

    Expression disabled :(

    any idea what I’m doing wrong?