stain glass window

[Nate Vander plas]

Try this little tutorial:
https://www.theanvel.com/tutorial_detail.php?tutorial=134
It should give you some good ideas for your own project. Also, if you want light to shine through your footage and create a colored/textured pattern on a layer behind it, check out this tutorial:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=1&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/gerard_rick/Projection_tut/index.html
The effect “find edges” may also help you get what you’re looking for.

[Kevin Camp]

there may be a plugin that can do a good job of this… but you could probably get close to a stained glass window look by creating a new layer, setting the mode to overlay (or something similar) and applying cell pattern (adjust cell size for resolution needed).

you’ll probably need to blur the oirginal footage some to decrease detail. create a new adjustment layer over the top and try cc threshold rgb to try to flatten the color within the cells (you may need to adjust the blend property, otherwise it’s kind of freaky). duplicate you cell pattern layer and apply find edges and set the blending mode to multiply – this should give you black edges around the cells. adjust with levels if needed.

this will probably get you close. i’m not sure how well the effect will work with moving footage, it could be cool or just plain strange.

you could also add an emboss to the black edges and even the glass pieces. cc light rays or shine might as an adjustment layer over the top might help pull this off.

[David Bogie]

Creating the effect of light shining through stained glass is easy once you understand how to use AE’s 3d tools (not easy).

However, creating layers and objects that have the look and feel of translucent, reflective, bumpy-textured and reflective surfaces that have properties of glass is an entirely different challenge.

The tutorials at The Anvel are cool and approachable but you must understand lighting, cameras, and surface properties for 3D obejcts.

bogiesan

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