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    Light trail effect, fading light ribbons.

    Posted by Justincredible on September 15, 2006 at 3:32 pm

    I’m seeing a cool effect out lately, that I want to try to recreate, and would like some how-to advice… a good place to start, or a plugin that will make it easier.

    The effect is a bright point of light leaving a slow-fading trail of light behind it… some recent places that I’ve seen this are, recent animated ABC logo (light with trails frenzies around the logo), the “Jane’s New York” opening sequence (NBC newsmagazine… if you’ve seen this sequence, you know what I mean)

    Most recently I have seen it in the Verizon/LG Chocolate commercial… the red LEDs of the spinning phone leave red trails that slowly fade out behind it.

    Thanks for the advice.

    Justin Faberlle
    3D Animator
    New York, NY

    Justincredible replied 19 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Tim Kurkoski

    September 19, 2006 at 4:53 pm

    I’ve seen a few tutorials on this. The COW has one that may be a good starting point:
    ttp://www.creativecow.net/articles/velez_dean/glowing_stroke/index.html

    You should also check out Dean’s site (www.theanvel.com). He posts a lot of example projects that you can dissect.

  • Justincredible

    September 20, 2006 at 12:26 am

    Thanks a lot for the response… I’ll check those links out and see how they look.

    Thanks.

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