Neon Lights + PATH

[Angus Mackay]

Hi

the link is broken but I think this might be what you need

https://www.trapcode.com/gallery.html

check out Jason Koxvolds Apearances video, very beautiful

Trapcode Paricular, not cheap but veeeerrrryyy cool

Angus

[Tobystud]

I did a pretty good neon sign using Trapcode 3D Stroke and Shine plugins. If you follow the Light Cycle tutorial available on Trapcode’s site, it pretty much tells you all you need to do, then just adapt it to your needs.

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-C13

[Guy]

link does not work.

Try the Glow effect.

[Zack Bryne]

link works if you do not click it but just copy and paste into a new tab or window, although its just a picture of neon lights

[Mike Clasby]

Render>Audio Waveform makes a pretty nice neon sign. Just don’t tie it to an audio layer.
Use, Path> Mask 1, in the plugin and it will climb on the mask.
You can control Inside Color (like neon green) and outside color (a lighter shade of the same green), and softness.
Add a glow on top of that and the neon is lookin pretty good.
Oh, yeah try a little wiggle expression, like
wiggle (5,20)
on the glow radius (or even transparency of the layer) and you get a nice flicker.

[Henry]

Thanks for your help! All done…

Just one last thing! Is there anyway to make the line change in size?

for example https://moblog.co.uk/blogs/1/moblog_7f4b273559a7d.jpg
(copy & paste link into browser).

I am using ae6.5 pro, and using stroke, with a path from AI, and the glow effect!

Thank you!!!

[Mike Clasby]

When you say change size, I’m assuming you don’t mean thickness, which you can do within with Brush Size in Stroke.

Keyframe changes in the Mask Shape (under Mask) will change the shape, size of the mask. Set a key frame, then down the timeline, change the size of the mask (double click the mask and you get a transform box like in Photshop, or move a vertex and the mask shape changes. AE will do the tweens for you.

[Henry]

Sorry, I wasn’t very clear.

I have a line coming in on the screen.. a bit like a heart monitor in a hospital.

But i don’t want the line to be one thickness, I want some bits thin, and other bits thick?

Like the lines in this… https://moblog.co.uk/blogs/1/moblog_7f4b273559a7d.jpg

Does that make sense?