Animating an Orbiting Asteroid in After Effects 

Thank you! I try my best to convey it in a way so everyone understands it

Thanks! Compositing in real life can also be quite fun :)

You are very welcome!

I’m glad to hear that, thanks!

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

I'm working on some texture animation at the moment :)

Yes, only position keyframes, as it’s usually used to keep an object on a specific motion path. Every time you copy a path onto a position, you will get the rove across time keyframes. They make sure that even though the path may have some extreme curves, it will keep a constant speed throughout it.

Because it’s already orbiting, and when you parent that to an external rotation, you get this result.

Actually the orbit is following the circle path which have being hided and olive is roating that circle path through null which now orbit have.

@@OliverRandorff did i explain right.?

@@hemantsinghkanyal6376 Same thing I said - just explained in a different way. So yes :)

Try switching what camera you are using to view it (underneath the composition preview)

@@OliverRandorff which camera are you using ?

Same problem here, probably nothing with the camera view. I am trying to mask

Depending on the scale of the object and the size of your composition, 500 may not be the exact value that you need

I struggle with this a long time, and find some sort of soulution. If a grafpoint is moved to high and the curvs goes from "overbound ( ) or straight /\" to a "underbound U shape" the besier path is locking the next graf to this U that wont go back to overbound. One way to go around this is to close the graf monitor and change the speed on the main timeline, mark all keyframe and press alt and narrow it down. (alt keep the distance right) Now you can go back to graf monitor and lower the 2 and 4 bar. If you lower to much the 3 marker turns to a U-shape, then you need to raise that one, and level the outside markers with the 3. This was a great tutorial and I learned allot!

To the right of the path group in the shape layer there are two icons - an arrow pointing left and one pointing right. Here you can click on the two icons to select the direction of the path. Hope that helps :)

I don’t undersstand that, sorry 🙌

@@OliverRandorff, i write "very good lesson")

@@motion_it ah I see, thank you!

@@OliverRandorff i watch every your lesson! It's a good practice for beginners! Will you make a lessons about character animation?

@@motion_it I already have one - the game character run cycle :)

Try changing either the camera view next to the quality settings (full, half, third, quarter). Other than that you can try adding a camera by going to -> layer -> new -> camera

all is well, forgot to transform the Null layer to 3D and the BG layer (Y=1)

@@fov6205 Great to hear that you figured it out