Planetary Nightscape | Nighttime Ambience | 10 Hours | Nature Sleep Sounds

A planetary nightscape constantly evolves in the sky accompanied by a calming chorus of crickets. Ambient night sounds for stress relief, relaxation, focus, meditation, yoga, studying, sleep, or drowning out distractions.

The visuals are not made with the intention of being realistic, and do not behave the way elements of the cosmos behave in reality.
How it was made:

To make the dark foreground trees, I took a picture one morning at dawn when the sun was just about to rise behind the trees. It made it easy to separate the trees from the sky. I cleaned up the edges and turned the trees, which were already very dark, to black in Photoshop, and saved as a PNG file to import into After Effects.

The star background was created in Photoshop by creating black and white noise, adjusting curves until an appropriate amount of stars were left, and saving as an image file. After importing into an After Effects composition, I made the stars sparkle using the turbulent noise effect. This effect will only work for a short amount of time, so the sparkling stars background had to be rendered as a short video and then added back into the project as a video file looped in the background. It is a lot for a little bit of sparkle, but the stars just don't look as nice without some subtle sparkling.

Nebulae (the plural for nebula, and yes I had to Google this!) were created in Photoshop. I created a cloud layer using black and white, and changed the blend mode to color dodge. I created a new layer underneath and used a paint brush to add colors. The layers were made very wide to create a strip of nebulae to be moved across the scene for a constantly evolving visual. Layers like this can't be merged while preserving the transparency, so I saved the layers as separate PNG files. After import into After Effects, I put them into the composition with the painted layer below the cloud layer, and I set the blend mode of the cloud layer to color dodge.

To make planets in Photoshop, I started by going outside with my camera and taking pictures of a lot of surfaces that might make good planet surfaces, such as closeups of a dirt road, stone pavers, a very dirty car, etc. In Photoshop, I used spherize on the texture images, added shadows with a black paintbrush, and added outer glow in layer style blending options. I saved each planet as a PNG file.

I put all these scene elements together in After Effects, and I made several After Effects compositions using different planets so the scene would continuously change for the 10 hour video duration. I combined all the AE compositions in Premiere Pro for the final video file, and which took 6 days to render.
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