Mars Mission 2025 After Effects Experiment

I thought I’d share an experiment with that I created today with After Effects, PhotoShop, Premiere Pro and Soundbooth. You could say I used lots of tools in my Adobe toolbox today!

First, I took a photo from iStockphoto and using layer masks and adjustment layers I turned it into the surface of Mars, or tired to. I then took it as a layered document into After Effects. I was inspired by this great post from Church Media Design and used it as a starting point to create the stars and aurora (big hint: fractal noise!) and added some text. I then went to SoundBooth and I took some canned music and mixed it with a wind sound effect to create the soundtrack. Finally, I brought the audio and video together in Premiere and then exported the file.

All in all it was a fun little experiment I can’t wait to do another one.