Question
Plane to sphere animation
For my recent video on the VFX History of Star Trek: The Next Generation, I wanted to demonstrate how the team created planets by taking planes and warping them in spheres. I was surprised to discover that this old effect was pretty hard to achieve nearly 40 years later. And while it's simple to use cC Sphere to show a plane as a sphere, there seemed no clear way to animate it becoming one. So I built my own and along the way hit some road blocks. I've shared my process and files:
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