Thank you for the reply Cassius, yeah, if it were up to me I’d just buy it. I’ll leave it at, I can’t purchase anything for the work machines out of pocket and they’re not going to buy it for us.
As for possible solutions, I was actually thinking along the same lines. Like a stroke effect or an animated path on a super huge comp, duplicated and moved around for the stacked line effect.
The animation can really be any interpretation of that still image. What I had in mind was very simple, the ribbon / lines shoot across the screen from the glowing-star origin point. I’ve already set up a Particle World base for the star mass explosion but I haven’t found a good solution for the ribbons. I may try to the stroke / path ideas in the morning tomorrow.
Thanks again. 🙂