Creating “veins” effect in AE

[Kevin Camp]

play around with the advanced lightning effect. i think several layers of that could get you pretty close to that kind of texture.

animating the decay property can get them to grow on/off.

for compositing onto an image like a face, look at some tutorials like this one on videocopilot:

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/the_healer/

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[David Phifer]

Kevin, wow, good idea with the lightning effect, I never even thought of that one.I will definitely try it. Also an avid fan of Andrew Kramer, I know that healing effect well, but haven’t tried to use to with this. I don’t know what the decay property is, I’ll have to check on that one.

Thanks for the ideas, Kevin, I appreciate you taking the time. I’ll let you know how it turns out!

David

Mod City Dave

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

One more suggestion, once you get the animation of the veins/lightning the way you want it, you could use FreeForm Pro to displace that layer in 3d and match the shapes of the face/arm.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[David Phifer]

Thanks, Ted, I’ve never played with Free form pro, but after watching your “Crazyface Commercial” I may have to try it. That was amazing work you did, I don’t understand depth maps as I’ve never done that, but if you know of any preferred tuts or other examples, please shoot me some links. Thanks, Ted, I appreciate your thoughts, you’re helping me up my game here!:)

Dave

Mod City Dave

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

You can see a basic depth map in the tutorial below- it uses Free Form (the stock plugin) but the principle is the same:
https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/3D-from-2D-image_AE/1

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist