There have been various posts on forums over the years asking how to make a mirror ball. This seamlessly looping version uses CC Sphere, Fractal Noise, Grid, 4-Color Gradient and Trapcode Shine. I’ve added comments to various layers, of particular interest is how to make the Grid effect line up evenly with the block-style Fractal.
Excellent.
This is great
thanx
“Mr. Amazing” strikes again!!! Great job John. This opens the door to a lot of other ideas. THANKS!
Way to go John! Thanks!
FAAAABULOUS JOHN!! 😛
great stuff mate
Your work is fantastic.I’ve got a result almost nice as yours,but there was a problem with expression thisComp.layer(“cc sphere 2”).transform.scale.After effects report error.Any ideo what I’m doing worg?Thank you!
It sounds like the link is broken. Did you change the name of Layer 4? JD
Problem solved.Now everything works fine.Thank you very much!!!!
Awesome
thank you
I can’t make it work man, i don’t know what’s the problem, but
doesn’t run, i’m using after effects 7, and when i try tu open it my after fx says that couldn’t be opened and it will close, and it crashes down, i tried a lot and there is no results, what may cause this?????? HEEEEELP PLEASE
Hi Rodo, I’m not sure. Did you delete your preferences and try again? Do you have the correct plug-ins installed?
Thanks so much, this is great. Is there any suggestions on a way I can substitute the shine plugin with the standard effects? Thanks!
Hi Daynor, The CC Radial Fast Blur effect is a good substitute. You could also try CC Radial Blur or just the standard Radial Blur effect set to Zoom.
Hi
I found your rainbow mirror ball image as a .jpg and have used it in combo with a photo of our singing group for a draft of a mardi gras show promo. I just use paintshop pro to do my pathetic efforts at graphics but the 84kb graphic I downloaded is too low res for anything but a little image and the .aep file is a format I cant use (I dont think). Is it possible to get the image as a jpeg but a bit higher res?
Thanks, Cath
Hi,
Id like to use your image as a background for my cd cover. If you can make me a version with the mirrorball the same size but with a much larger canvas I will pay you for it! Let me know. Thanks heaps
DJ Dee
Big Thanks from France…
cool! it sounds very well, creating such efx is interesting and challenging.thank u.
I love it!!!you’re great!
kisses from Italy
greaaaaaaaaaat I was just needing one of these… can it be used for commercial projects? It’s a short animation about how 2 people meet to be screened on their wedding 🙂 Thanks!
Sure. If you can please mention Motionworks.
Thanks so much!
This is a beautiful sphere!! I love that, man
Hi! This is SO good. I was wondering if I could use this as a cover for an indie album?
Thanks!
-Brock
sure thing Brock.