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You can do aurora in After Effects too:
Freelance flawlessly in Motion Design:
Pure Cinema 4D is all you need; All native, all standard renderer. So get your solar flares ready because we’re going magnetospheric with this one, baby!
00:00 Intro & Overview
00:20 Setting up the magnetosphere
01:01 Methods for Making an Aurora Texture
01:21 Making Aurora Texture with a Layer Shader and Noise Shader
01:33 Noise 1: Ribbons with Cranal Noise
01:55 Noise 2: Mask with Gaseous Noise
02:13 Difference between Alpha & Transparency
02:31 Noise 3: Pillars with Noise Noise
02:51 Animating the Noises in Cinema 4D
03:30 Setting up the Volumetric Lights
04:00 Light 1: Edge
05:40 Light 2: Streaks
06:12 Light 3: Purple
07:00 Hiding the magnetosphere
07:30 Tweaking the length of the Aurora