[Alan Tonn]

http://www.videocopilot.net

he has a tutorial located here:

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=11

that teaches how to track the face, and cause an effect to the face. the principle is exactly the same, just a smaller effect over your subjects eyes.

after you track the eyes it would be a matter of creating a layer that followed the path the size you wanted it to be and then put a few effects on it to get the desired glow effect.

i think you would also want to somehow cause the area around the subjects eyes to reflect the light. that i am not sure of how i would acomplish, but i think it would be a matter of having a second layer of the footage that i would cause a glow effect to around the eyes area.

if your subject comes close to objects that should also reflect the glow then there is a question of how intense the eye glow should be.

i know it can be done, and i am sure there is someone here who could get it done. unfortuneately i am still learning myself.

what kind of deadline are you on? i know you said that you are filming on the 21st, but after that when does it need to be finished?

[Alan Tonn]

Hello

you forgot the sketch…

[Alan Tonn]

they actually have customers!

[Alan Tonn]

Hello

i am very interested in this as well.

steph do you do tutorials? i would be very interested in seeing what you did to create this effect.

alanrtonn {at} hotmail {dot} com

[Alan Tonn]

hello

thanks.

i have used PP before, but even after i have told the particles to die i am still getting a slow computer…

is there any optimizations that i can do to my composition?

[Alan Tonn]

i have tried this expression for a grid:

num_cols=8;
num_rows=10;

space_cols=500;
space_rows=100;

place_row=Math.ceil((index)/num_cols);
place_col=Math.ceil((index)-(place_row-1)/num_rows);
place_compensate=place_row*space_cols*num_cols;

y=place_row*space_rows-space_rows/2;
x=place_col*space_cols-space_cols/2-place_compensate;
[-x,y]

i placed sliders in place of the static values to see if i could get the results i wanted, but the problem is i would like something a little more fluid and not necessarily “gridish” something that would put lots of copies of the layer in a somewhat random 3d pattern.

on example of the kind of finished product i am going for is the digits man by eran stern at this tutorial:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/stern_eran/Digits_Man1.php

i want to use the “grid” layer i am trying to create as the “fill” for another layer that i will have in the final comp. basically these words in the array in a “3d random grid” from the previous post will be the fill inside another word.

keep one thing in mind, i am in AE 7 and cant do the individual character thing that eran does in his tutorial.

i hope this makes sense. again thanks for any and all help.

[Alan Tonn]

Woo Hoo!

thank you.

so is the java script in AE exactly the same as javascript out there for the web?

i do a lot of MS Access programming and it is not exactly the same as Visual Basic .net programming. there are some things that act differently between the VBA and the full Visual Basic.

[Alan Tonn]

i feel so stupid.

i dont know how i missed this.

imeadiately after i posted i went “browsing” which is something i dont know if i have done before here. usually i end up searching the site.

my bad, sorry for the needless post.