Gilding Effect

[David Bogie]

You have to create a mask of the area that is covered in the gold foil and then figure out what effect to use. Shine would not be where I’d start since this is just a color, not an active effect, unless, of course, you’re going to animate the light source. That would require an easier-to-draw mask.

Your sample image is complicated with lighting from only one side and there is much variation in the surface texture of the skin. All this can be created in AE but, like most simulations, it will never really look like illumination from a scriptorium.

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[Tyler Paul]

To make the foil look shiny I’d try making a masked duplicate of the foiled area and set it’s blend mode to add. Adjust the opacity. To animate it I’d maybe add colorama with a gold colored gradient and animate it’s rotation. This should make the foil look like the light source is moving as dark parts become light and light parts become dark.

I wish I had AE in this edit bay so I could test it out.

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[Darby Edelen]

If you’re in the mood for something quick and easy Effect>Stylize>Texturize can help you get some decent texture/light effects, similar to bump mapping only it doesn’t respond to AE’s 3D lights (although I’m sure you could write an expression to do so).

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[Mike Procunier]

I’d find a large image of gilding or metal texture online (istockphoto.com perhaps) and matte it into the desired area. You could even take a digital photo of aluminium foil and colorize it in AE. Maybe put a subtle grunge texture on top to rough it up a bit.

[John Wilkins]

Thanks guys. I’ll do some experimenting and post what I come up with.

[Nate Vander plas]

I’ve done it before by using fractal noise, stretching it vertically, and then colorize with a tweaked gold preset. If you wanted it to be bumpier you could use a photo of a bumpy surface and use it as a displacement map for the fractal noise layer. Here is what mine looked like:
Fake gold glint
It is very near the beginning on the “Calvin Engineering” letters.
Hope this helps!
Nate