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Question regarding using a Light Layer in AE7
I am working on a spot where I have added two lights (key and fill) using After Effects 7.0 and would like to add one more light. Is it possible to create a backlight using AE7.0. I have made a mask of the person, and then blurred the background behind her, is it possible to put a light facing the “camera”, and then put the person on top of that, to create a backlight effect? Basically I want halo halo effect. My background is in theatre lighting, and I use this all the time. Is it possible in AE7? Any tips are greatly appreciated.
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Well … you can’t get a halo effect on a cardboard cutout. This is what we’re dealing with here. To get a halo, you need hair, fabric, or at least a 3-dimensional object so the light can bounce off the top surfaces of the object toward the viewer (incidence/reflection). However, any layer in AE is a flat, 2-dimensional object, like a cardboard cutout as I stated.
If you want the effect of a halo, you could try adding stylize>glow. Maybe to make it cut into the masked person, you could apply a negative mask expansion to shrink the mask, and/or add a duplicate layer above and play with its mask expansion and/or feather, but with no glow.
But you can’t add a halo with a light from behind.
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Like Steve said – light doesn’t bounce off an edge that has a thickness of zero. Physically and mathematically impossible. The simple method woul be to duplicate your layer, erode it with Simple Chocker and use it as a matte on yet another duplicate of your layer. By using Blurs and Glows you can get some decent effects, but it won’t work in every situation. By offsetting the matte layer you can define the incidince angel of the light (on one side contours will becom fatter).
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Would this work? Duplicate the masked layer, make it 3D, move it between, then add CC Radial Fast Blur and CC Fast Blur to softer.
CC Radial Fast Blur: maybe on brightest, and adjust the Center until your halo flares out right.
CC Fast Blur: Just to soften out the halo.
You previous lights will probably make the halo pop.
On this layer you’ll probably need another mask (Intercept-Inverted probably) to stop the halo from wrapping around the feet of the masked person (hey is this the Lone Ranger?).
It looks pretty good in a quick test, but maybe not if I’m missing something.
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Hey, talking about back lighting I just thought that it might be great if I implied it on my animation. What if I make those lights shimmering then? One can see that this kind of effect is frequently been used in anime’s and I believe it can be achieved by using Retas! Pro features but I do believe that AE can do the same. Can anyone help me with this?
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