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Laser cut effect
I’m in the middle of making a star wars fan-film and I am in need of a laser cut effect. When a character in the movie is wielding a lightsaber he then cuts a droid/robot in half. I would like to apply a sort of laser cut effect on the area that has been cut on the droid.
Basically I would like the edges of the area that has been cut to glow as if the metal there is really hot.
Anyone got some ideas?/Mac
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Draw a mask with the pen tool (following the cut’s edges) then apply effect>render>stroke, then effect>stylize>glow?
(Glow is in the Pro version of AE. If you don’t have it, there are other methods, such as: duping the stroke layer, blurring the top stroke layer and setting it to screen or add mode.)
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You could watch Aharon Rabinowitz’s recent tutorial on the outside edges effect to get a good start.
As for me, I did something similar recently and I used the beam effect and played with the start and end center point and made sure to keyframe the starting and ending thickness.
Hope that helped 🙂
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