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  • Technical question pls help =)

    Posted by Vu Dyk on August 11, 2023 at 6:33 pm

    Hello! I’m a beginner and I could really use some help. How can I attach an effect, as shown in the photo, to an image in After Effects? 😅 (My English is not so good. I translated this =) I tried using track motion but it didn’t work. Maybe I messed up with the layers, but I don’t understand what mistake I made. Also, the YouTube videos I found might not be exactly what I need, I guess.

    I would greatly appreciate any assistance.

    And this is what I’m trying to do

    Max Haller replied 2 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Max Haller

    August 24, 2023 at 9:00 pm

    Hey Vu Dyk,

    I think you want to make that pink glow attached to the character’s hand, right? I believe tracking it with the motion tracker or animating it by hand to match the movements might be your only options really.

    The motion tracker should work on that image fairly well, you might need to adjust the sizes of the inside and outside box on the tracker if it’s jumping around a lot. The inside box tells after effects what shape its supposed to be looking for frame to frame and the outside box is the region that it will search for that shape. Or if the tracker doesn’t work you might have to animate it by hand to match. Good luck

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