Making it Look Great 6

Creating the Globe
Working with layouts; Creating and Cloning onto a Sphere Object;
Generating the Globe Effect with the Shader Effector;
Introducing the Plain Effector and Effector falloff.

Creating the Orbiting Text
Preparing Illustrator artwork; Importing artwork and creating Extrude NURBS; Introducing the Fracture Object;
Orbiting the text with the Spline Effector; Linking parameters using Xpresso and Set Driver;
Organising the scene with layers.

Working with Cameras
A basic camera rig with User Data; Linking User Data to object parameters using Xpresso;
Animating the camera; Manipulating F-Curves.

Animating the Text and Globe
Animating the text using Spline Effector; Scaling and rotating the text using Effectors; Animating the globe rotation;
Using Animation Layers to add secondary animation; Adjusting Shader Mapping to enhance composition.

Modeling a Basic Soccer ball
Using Primitives to create the basic football shape; Using modeling tools to edit the football model;
Adding textures to Selection sets; Baking a spherical map from the football model;
Wiping from globe to football with Effectors.

Creating Materials and the Content Browser
Using the Fresnel shader; Adding HDRI reflections Presets;
Catalogs and the Content Browser; The Compositing Tag; Lumas Shader for Anistrophic Highlights.

Lighting the Scene
Introduction to Light types; Using Area Lights; The Target Tag;
Three point lighting; Include / Exclude lists; Controlling specular highlights.

Streaks of Light
Using Viewport filters; Matrix Object vs Cloner Object; Creating splines using with the Tracer Object;
Adding and optimising geometry with Sweep NURBS; Limiting Tracer results; Making Luminant Materials.

More Graphic Elements
Radial duplication with Cloner Object; Using Blend mode;
Cloning Cloner objects; Modifying Clones with Effectors.

Preparing for Render
External Compositing Tag to Export 3D data; Assigning Object Buffers; Configuring output parameters;
Setting up Multipass rendering; Exporting After Effects compositing file.

Importing into After Effects
Importing the AEC file, Organising the project; Separating 3D Elements with Object Buffers;
Creating the background.

Enhancing the 3D Render
Colour correction; Adding glows; Creating a turbulent glow;
Adding a border to the text; Emphasizing specular highlights.

Finishing Touches
Using the exported 3D data; Adding trails with Trapcode Particular; Using Expressions to add randomness;
Adding extra 3D elements; Creating an image wipe transition; Final rendering.