From the course: Creating a Mograph Title Sequence: 2 Animating in After Effects

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Creating a galaxy

Creating a galaxy

From the course: Creating a Mograph Title Sequence: 2 Animating in After Effects

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Creating a galaxy

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- [Instructor] The stars that we've created in the previous movie are a nice addition, but I think I want to add more detail to this scene by adding a galaxy environment around this planet. Now, there are a couple of ways to work here. One way is to use the orb effect, duplicate it, and over here you can actually tell the surface to render only the back. So we can create a huge radius and apply a different texture and this is going to behave as a nice environment. Or, you can also use the CC environment effect, which in this case offer more control with a singular interface. So, I am going to show you how to use it and then you can decide what you want to do in the future. So, I'll return to the project panel, I'll open up the source files folder, and I'll take this texture of the Milky Way Galaxy and place it underneath our stars. Next, I'll solo it so we can can see what we are working with. And I'm going to go to…

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