Adding ‘Sparkle’ or ‘Glitter’ Effect to moving footage?

[Doyle Lewis]

Although a glow effect I think is in the right direction I think what you are asking is for it to look more metallic. A good way to do this is through an effect called CC glass. CC glass uses a layer as a bump layer to choose shiny and flat parts of your image and allows you to put in a false light to choose the directionality of the light source.

To achieve this I have made a file where I used Colorama to proceduraly create a CMY bump map from whatever footage you would want to use based off luminance and remaps it to CMY map. Then I used that map to drop in CC Glass and played with the adjustments and the light till i got something interesting. Most importantly though I did 2things:

Turned surface-> height to negative
Adjusted all my shading settings up and down to get the contrast and roughness in the shine the way I wanted

Right now CC wont let me upload the project file but when it can I will. Please let me know if you have any questions about how to do it

Doyle Lewis,
Assistant Location Manager
Warner Brother Pictures

[Doyle Lewis]

I thought the video file may help demonstrate how it works better than the image:

Doyle Lewis,
Assistant Location Manager
Warner Brother Pictures

[Doyle Lewis]

Sorry it didn’t embed here is just the link

youtu.be/d39ndbb1Vf0

[Guy Smith]

hi Doyle, that’s a nice effect thankyou for going to the trouble of posting the video, so in fact I was thinking something less classy in a way, like a naff disney sparkly effect, but one that tracks and not just static, like Saphire Sparkle (if it tracked!) thanks for the suggestion though

[Guy Smith]

https://videohive.net/item/hiphop-style-blingbling-3d-pendant-on-chain/2924254

like this if there is a plugin that could make it

[Richard Garabedain]

YOU COULD duplicate the footage bring out the whites then use that as a map for optical flares using luma values to drive the optical flares…and on the plus side it works almost like a tracker

[Guy Smith]

hi Richard thankyou I will try that, it sounds promising!