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Vertical line Light Effect
Hiya,
I want to try and recreate the effect in the linked video below, where bright light points create a vertical line upwards… I don’t really know what its called or how to go about making it – although I’m hoping its relatively easy 🙂
Heres the vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIOTeIix-2c
The effect i’m talking about is in the last 10 or so seconds of the video… where the car lights and other bright points sporadically create a line upwards.
Thanks in advance,
Conor 🙂
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1 Reply
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Good news Conor. Its pretty easy to do with more than one tool and technique. one of the easiest ways is to use the popular plug in trapcode shine. Set the threshold really low to only get the ‘hottest’ colors and animate the length to taste. Obviously set your colors to white if thats what you want. You will want to set your source point far away from the content so the ‘rays’ shoot more vertical upward.
Or you could simply color key out the white areas on a separate layer,
and use an add composite mode and directional blur the heck out of it.
Because the Directional blur goes both directions, I would pre comp it first, THEN blur it, then matte out the blur that goes downward with a
basic, feathered bezier mask.just two ways you could go.
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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