How To Create A Lifeless Planet And Animate A Rover On It Using Projection 3D In After Effects

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July 14, 2025

Seems incredible you can do this in After Effects, but this tutorial will show you how to use Projection 3D to create a lifeless planet with an animated rover.

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Notes

00:00 - Introduction

00:16 - Creating Project & Camera Matching

02:17 - Matching the Grid

02:55 - Creating Projection

03:09 - Modeling

08:23 - Editing an image in Photoshop

11:04 - Converting layers into a 3D-Model

12:46 - Adding the rover

16:09 - Camera animation

17:10 - Integration of the rover into the environment

 

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