What would be the best way to recreate something similar to this?

[John Cuevas]

Create a white solid and make it a 3D layer. Add white lights and the bottom corners of your comp and place them 10 pixels in front of the white solid. Adjust the lights settings to match and animate rotation to taste. You could also adjust the material properties of the solid to make it shine more or less.

I made a sample project with 2 lights in CS5.5. 6463_spotlights.aep.zip

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

There’s a few ways to go about this- John described a good one- here’s a couple more:

you can animate masks with feathered edges on semitransparent white solids.

OR

Use AE lights with Trapcode Lux to make the light cone volumetric.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Jackson Redshaw]

Brilliant. Thanks!

I edited it a little to come up with the effect I wanted. Ill post a link to it shortly.

Jackson Redshaw
http://www.youtube.com/MITLRproductions

[Jackson Redshaw]

Here’s the final product.

As you can see I substituted the White Solid for a background I made of Fog, added in some 3D text, added in some subtle camera flashes and of course a red carpet!

This was for a film festival I helped run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKP1SablPUM&list=PLSBOyMlXzkGWLEFSMx3jRKla2ePQdE9Ie&index=1

Jackson Redshaw
http://www.youtube.com/MITLRproductions

[John Cuevas]

Looks good, glad I could help out…do I get a credit? LOL

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.