Happy last post! Well, isn't this a bittersweet moment? Over the past few months I have posted about motion graphics from things like movies and especially music. I think my favorite post on here was in regards to Flying Lotus's Layer 3 live set-up. As an avid music connoisseur, I find it exciting to see two of my favorite things, music and post production coming together.
For my last post I am changing up a little bit. This is a video that would not be too hard to replicate in After Effects, it is using motion graphics to explain the Drake Equation from Carl Sagan's Cosmos. None of it seems particularly difficult, most of the objects just grow and shrink as well as fly around the screen. The only one I am not sure about is the rotating Earth. See the video to get what I mean.
Visual Loop Daily Video - Drake Equation by Visualoop
My guess is the image of the Earth was originally a flat .png and the editor grabbed the edges and pulled them back as to make the image like a cylinder. Then they warped the top and bottom so that they were touching opposite ends. The middle may have been "puffed" out to make it appear like an orb. But this is just a guess! :)
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