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  • Creating a Portal or glowing object

    Posted by Sean Harper on October 1, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    Hello everyone on creative cow,

    If you could help me I would be greatly appreciative:)

    In the video I am trying to make I am being sucked in through a glowing portal

    the portal doesn’t have to be anything crazy, just a simple glowing sphere.

    without the use of any 3-D plugins or oany other programs other than After Effects CS3, how would I create a glowing portal
    and how would I make it look like I am walking into it

    I would need to create it in a way that would make it covered up in the spot I am walking in front of it

    How would I cover the spot I’m walking in front of yet retain the entire portal and make it look realistic

    -Sean Harepr

    Grinner Hester replied 17 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Grinner Hester

    October 1, 2008 at 4:58 pm

    you can photoshop the portal then do some cool blurs and warps in AE.
    If you don’t have you shot over a keyable source, you’ll wanna animate a mask for that. With proper feathering and keyframing, it doesn’t have to be a rotoscope.

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