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  • Stephen Smith

    June 19, 2014 at 2:31 pm

    Check out this tutorial: https://vfxbro.com/lightstreak/

    Stephen Smith

    Utah Video Productions

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  • Roberto Rivera

    June 21, 2014 at 4:01 am

    wow, that is an excellent find my friend. Very good indeed, Thanks!

  • Stephen Smith

    June 25, 2014 at 4:25 pm

    Happy to help. Best of luck.

    Stephen Smith

    Utah Video Productions

    Check out my Vimeo page

  • Jp Pelc

    July 3, 2014 at 5:00 pm

    If you want a less tedious way than drawing on every frame, you can follow these steps:

    – Create basic shape that you want to animate
    – Create solid and add fractal noise effect
    – Change the fractal noise parameters to be long and stringy (you might need to play with these later to get the desired effect)
    – On the seed random parameter, alt+click the stopwatch and add the following expression: time*50
    – Precompose the solid and select move effects into new comp. Call the precomp “map”
    – Hide the precomp
    – Add a displacement map effect to the shape layer
    – Choose your “map” precomp as the displacement map layer
    – Choose “luminance” for both horizontal and vertical displacement.

    Voila. You might need to do a lot of playing around with fractal noise to get the look that you want, but once you do, you can use it for a map on every shape you’ll be animating, and it will save you a lot of time.

  • Jp Pelc

    July 3, 2014 at 5:02 pm

    On a separate note, it’s sad that Joey Badass is making himself look bad by agreeing to be on tracks with Mac Miller

  • Roberto Rivera

    July 4, 2014 at 1:26 am

    Im gonna try that, thanks! and yea I personally love Joey Badass but I kinda like Mac, especially that last cd he released “Faces”. But yea man, I feel like the write on effect for the stroke is great but very cumbersome to work with, lots of layer with built in keyframes that I gotta move around. Im also finding that I have to draw on the actual video itself the copy into a separate layer which is a little annoying

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