• Adobe After Effects

  Sparkle or glittery effect…

  Posted by Daniel Elder on July 25, 2006 at 4:04 pm

  I am trying to make a convinceing sparkle, glimmer for a product, and want to know what the best technique to use, would it trapcode particular or a standard plugin for AE 7? What settings should I try using for whichever plugin I would use? Thanks

  Daniel Elder
  Associate Producer
  http://www.luminair.com

  Wildfire replied 19 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Nicholas Toth

  July 25, 2006 at 4:49 pm

  I don’t think you’re being clear enough. What do you mean sparkle? Lense flair? Glow?
  Try to find something to compare it to.
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  Daniel Elder

  July 25, 2006 at 6:21 pm

  I am looking for a sparkle that would make a product glow, it would be very simple, a few stars, no movement, just an adjustment of the brightness at a random, and has a very shiney kind of situation. I don’t know how best to describe it, but it would be something like “The Fablous life of the Rich and Famous” something more like a glitter. That just highlights the product. Does that help at all?

  Daniel Elder
  Associate Producer
  http://www.luminair.com
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  Mike Clasby

  July 25, 2006 at 8:15 pm

  Fear not to do an Advanced Search, just be sure to choose:

  Search Terms – Sparkle

  (and most impostant to search all the way back)

  How far back do you want to search? – choose – “All Active Posts”

  Search the Archives? – choose – Yes

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  This post made a nice Big Smile Sparkle, (zip file):

  Name: Jonathan Miller
  Date: May 15, 2006 at 9:52:06 am
  Subject: Re: Smile twinkle.

  No need for a plugin. I do this a few times a year and have made a graphic to use over and over.

  http://www.treelineproductions.com/preview/starsparkle.psd.zip

  Add the psd to your comp and keyframe the scale from zero to whatever size you want then back down to zero. At the same time, keyframe the rotation from zero to, say, 180.

  So, you should have 3 keyframes for the scale, and 2 for the rotation.

  Easy.

  Good luck!

  Jon
  TreeLine Productions
  Fort Collins, CO USA

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  Or this,

  Name: Yoshi
  Date: Jul 1, 2005 at 12:10:45 pm
  Subject: Sparkle effect

  https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=855276

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  Maybe a particle generator, Particular or Particle Illusion (lots of presets0 with lowered opacity.
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  Daniel Elder

  July 25, 2006 at 9:26 pm

  Thank you I forgot to do the advance search, but thanks for the advice.

  Daniel Elder
  Associate Producer
  http://www.luminair.com
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  Wildfire

  July 26, 2006 at 4:27 pm

  Sounds like Trapcode Starglow could help you?

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