The Solar System to scale
Channel: After Effects Tips & Treats - by Julien Schickel
Date: 2019-09-24

The whole Solar System. Real Size. Real Scale. Real Time. Or about so...

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My 7 years old son asks me to do a space video, showing the "real" sizes of the Solar System.

While trying, I realize that it is actually impossible to show the System truly to scale, respecting sizes, distances, and times. That is something I've never realized so far.

I then started to change the video from "making a real size Solar System" to "explaining why it is impossible to make a real size Solar System."

So, here is the result!

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I made the video only on After Effects, using only surface pictures of the planets. If you're interested in a tutorial on how to do this kind of video, please ask for it in the comments.

Music by Bruno Delouzillière : https://soundcloud.com/bruno-dlz/sets

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French version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJadtYf9-oA&t=24s

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Lors of comments ask about the time scale of the last part of the video. It is indeed km/h, but at a Time scale of 1 day = 2 seconds.