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80’s style electricity/lightning effects
Are there any shortcuts for these kinds of effects, or is it all done via hand drawn mattes? Seems a lot of labour for very little screen time, especially in this video (from 1:08)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n2cyZt5IDE
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they do kind of look hand drawn, but it may also just have a cartoony glow. I bet if you drew a stroke, roughedn the edges, added some turbulant displacement, and mimic the cartoony glow, it would be possible. Or maybe with a fractal noise, such as the lightning tutorials for photoshop users. dont have a link. The hard part is the timing
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Oh, ya, works pretty well, stroke, turbulatn diisplace, glow, then, add rough edges, then another glow.
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You can also use the turbulent displace/glow in conjunction with the beam effect. Makes it easy to animate the end points of the “lightning.”
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ah, good thinking
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advanced lightning could also be used.
setting the lightning type to strike or 2-way strike will keep it between 2 points (like beam). it has glow settings and of course a lightning like distortion built in.
if the end points are static you’ll want to animate the conductivity state to animate the strikes.
Kevin Camp
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