Landscaper allows you to create stunning 3D landscapes in Adobe After Effects. With a library of 1,000 landscape elements, you can create virtually any kind of landscape – from winter wonderlands to tropical beaches, and arid deserts to epic fantasy worlds! Animate your camera to bring the 3D scene to life, and enhance your scene with custom effects like waterfalls, fog, rainbows, haze, 3D titles, and more. Also included are 30 finished landscapes. Easily customize them, or drop a 3D title into the scene, and they’re ready to render.
The framework is all set up so that you, the landscaper, can focus on creativity. Simply draw a mask to create a lake. Just turn the clock to set the lighting and time of day. Or… keyframe the clock and create a time lapse. Designed for ease of use and total customization, Landscaper is an all-in-one package that turns imagination to animation, with striking results!
Create perspective-bending 3D scenes in After Effects!
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How It Works
Landscaper is built entirely in After Effects and is designed for easy customization using slider controls. Landscapes are composed of 2D images, called “elements”, arranged in 3D space. 3D modelers/animators would probably refer to this as 2D animation, but After Effects users would refer to this as a 3D scene. Technically, it’s 2.5D.
As you start your new landscape, it will have several default features – a ground plane, optional water, a sky, stars, sun and moon. After choosing your image for the ground and sky, you can start filling your landscape with elements and positioning them in 3D space. Lighting effects and atmospheric haze are built in to the elements, so their brightness and colors are affected by their distance from the camera, and by whatever time of day you set the clock to. Once you have built up your scene, add some finishing touches from the Effects folder, such as 3D titles, fog, wind, heat haze, insects, birds, falling leaves, auroras, and floating pollen. Add subtle camera movements to create parallax and show off your 3D creation.
Need to Know
- This template is compatible with Adobe After Effects, version 18.0 (CC 2021) and all later versions. Works on both PCs and Macs. No plugins required.
- This template includes both HD (1920×1080) and 4K (4096×2160) versions of each landscape. You can change the comps to any resolution by following the instructions in the video tutorial.
- The 3D ground planes are made with a technique called “camera projection mapping”. If you decide to use the ground plane, you are limited in how far you can move the camera, before the image starts to look distorted. Longer, more complex camera movements are possible, but you would need to hide the ground plane.
- All landscapes and effects in the demo video above are included in the template.
- All images in this template are public domain or a similar license. Most landscape elements were taken from Pixabay and are released under the Pixabay License, which allows for both non-commercial and commercial use, no attribution required. A few images were taken from Flicker Creative Commons or Wikimedia Commons, and are labeled as public domain. The original photos have been color-corrected and altered to create a transparent background.
- The file size is very large – about 1.5 GB. Please allow plenty of time for downloading. If you have any problems downloading, send me a message.
- This template has been “universalized”, so it will work in After Effects running in any language.
HW Specs
The Landscaper template is not a plugin, so there is nothing to install. Rather, it’s an Adobe After Effects project file, commonly known as a “template” because most of the work is already done and the user needs only to make their own customizations. This template is compatible with version 2021 (18.0) as well as all later versions of After Effects.
Landscaper contains copyrighted intellectual property. The animations you create with this product are 100% yours and can be used for commercial purposes, but the sharing or online posting of project files with or for anyone other than a client is prohibited. See the Terms and Conditions for more details.