Simulate Volumetric light

[Vince Becquiot]

Most of this was done in a 3D application. For AE, you can look at Trapcode Lux.

Vince

[Mylenium]

The usual suspects – shine or any other light ray plugin. I don’t think it involved too much “real” volumetrics.

Mylenium

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[Nicholas Toth]

Gotcha — I imagined it would be shine + a clever alpha matte via threshold + roto-ing the arm.