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How to acheive Light Trail Effect?
I’ve seen it done well before and haven’t been able to successfully acheive it myself. I have tried particles with time-blending. i have tried Trapcodes 3d stroke… nothing seems to acheive the effect i am looking for. Here is a great still shot of what I am talking about.
https://www.syndromestudio.com/newsite/images/PRINT_new/surge.jpg– JG
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Well you can do it with stroke; are you looking for video or print?
You need plenty of layers set to multiply/color/burn…etc in order to achieve it properly. Don’t forget your layer with a feathered mask (showing the edges only) with a gaussian blur on it — and some color burning gradients. It will take some patience — if you’re looking to do it with print I’d use some sort of 3d software and just lay out some sweep nurbs (c4d…) — I believe i ran across a tutorial on that sort of thing in an issue of COMPUTER ARTS PROJECTS. It was last summer and it showed how to do it in maya using multi-pass techniques. You can’t just ‘make’ it; it is going to be a ton of layers and effects with different blends — but it’ll look hot in the end.
Nicholas Toth
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We have a tutorial in the library called Creating Liquid light that might help or give you a starting point.
You can find all of the tutorials in the library by clicking on the After Effects COW title banner at the top of the page.
Kathlyn Lindeboom
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Thanks. That tutorial is helpful as well as the advice. I kind of figured it’s a bit of trial and error so i will jump on in and give it a shot 🙂
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