Glowing eyes effect!!

[Dan Crandall]

Rob,

I’ve played with this effect. I’ll be happy to email you a veg file if you want to give me an email address.

-Dan

[Rob James]

Thanks alot Dan, there is an e-mail button at the bottom of my website. https://www.robjames.net Give me a clue what method did you use? The suspense is killing me!! Thanks for your help!

[Dan Crandall]

Rob,

I’ve emailed you the veg file.

I used the bezier mask on the eyes and then added a child solid color track to make the eyes glow. There are probably better ways but it does work.

-Dan

[Rob James]

Thanks Dan, that is very cool, and quite close to what I’m looking for. But I’d like the glow to shine out pass the eyes a few inches, kind of like a treasure chest of gold, that just has it’s lid slightly cracked open. It’s very hard to describe, but I’ve seen a titling veggie that is very similiar to the effect I’m looking for. Not sure if it used lens flare or what, but the text had rays of light emanating all around the outer edge of the text. Yours is a great start, if I could just get some rays to leak out of the pupils I’d be set. Once again thanks for the veggie. Anybody else have any possible solutions?

[Doug Graham]

The term for that effect is “volumetric lighting”, bacause the light rays appear to be actual objects.

Regards,
Doug Graham

[Rob James]

That’s GREAT to know Doug, can you tell me how to achieve it?

[Seth Hancock]

A simple answer to your question is to purchase combustion or after effects and trapcode’s Shine plug-in and motion track the effect.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Vegas and solely use it as an editor because when it comes to any type of motion graphics or animation Vegas just doesn’t cut it for graphics. Keep the change…

Seth

[Rob James]

Thanks Seth, for the advice. I too love Vegas, and agree it really shines as the Master Editor. But about using Trapcode’s Shine plugin with After Effects, could you link me to a step up step tutorial, or would you be able to tell me that yourself? This is an effect I’m so eager to learn. Once again thanks for your help.

[Seth Hancock]

Shine is incredibly easy to use (that’s why you see it on SOOOOOOO MANY commercials, tv programs and movies). The best place to start is http://www.trapcode.com. There are some tutorials on how to use this plug-in but I can also provide some info on how to use this with After Effects and your footage.

I believe you said you don’t have a lot of movement with the person. Therefore, you will need to draw a couple of masks around the eyes… first of all duplicate your footage so that you can easily isolate the eyes… then draw masks around your eyes so that you can apply the effect to the duplicated layer. Since it is the same footage the eyes will line up and move exactly the same and you can just apply the effect to that layer.

Lastly, you will need to play around with your length of the rays, color and the way they act within your scene. But I would much rather use something like AE or Combustion for effects generating than Vegas.

Good luck and let me know if I can help in any other way. Take care.

Seth

[Rob James]

Thanks ever so much for your advice Seth, I’ve purchased Shine, and already have After Effects, so I’ll follow some of Trapcode’s tutorials and get a handle on how to use the effect, and will post some results if they are half decent. Once again thanks again for your help.