Fairytale Lighting in After Effects

Fairytale Lighting in After Effects

on Mar 31st 2011 with 7 comments

In Fairytale Lighting in After Effects (below), the prolific Harry Frank shows you how to “how to take a regular, run-of-the-mill shot and turn it into something beautiful and moody, straight out of a fairytale. You’ll learn how to set up a down-and-dirty 3D track, add volumetric light and dust to a live action shot, and then finish it with some simulated camera lens blur.”

Harry generously notes some alternatives to Red Giant and Trapcode effects used. But wait, there’s more:

Red Giant QuickTip #39: Fairytale Lighting in After Effects from Red Giant Software on Vimeo.

 
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Rich Young is a long-time After Effects user from the San Francisco Bay Area who tracks AE news at AE Portal.  

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  • http://designmodo.com Adrian

    Interesting tip, not simple, but very good to try them in us works.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/simboy48 Adam Sklar

    Wow, that’s a decent tutorial, definitely going to be coming back to this one.

  • Steph

    Cool final effect.

    On the learn-ability of the tutorial: Im not sure what level you are presenting this too….but you go way to fast to keep up. You make the assumption that the viewer knows what keys you are pressing or where to go to do some of the things you are showing in the video.

    I’d love to be able to recreate this but due to the steep learning curve of AE and the lack on your part to slow down and explain what you are doing (“exactly”) it will just server to frustrate those like me who try to use these tutorial gifts as learning tools.

  • http://aeportal.blogspot.com/ Rich Young
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    If you find a tutorial too advanced, you still might benefit by breaking it into components, since yes the parts of the process have been done as tutorials themselves in other places. You can follow the links in the article to discover tutorials on component effects. Some of this will be easier than others, and it’s quite easy to go deeper on the dust particles and go into exploring smoke effects. Some people spend years only on particles.

    When you’re more familiar with some of the component effects, you can revisit this tutorial which integrates techniques to build a look.

    Just want to note that this is a Red Giant tutorial found on Harry Frank’s blog, and posted here as part of the news service. The Red Giant and Trapcode tools mentioned do make make building this look easier, and the alternatives built-into AE may take a bit longer to set up.

  • Johannes Danielsen

    Nice tutorial!

    It sure is a “poorman’s” tracking, but the rest is pretty exspensive… magic bullet, trapcode…. :-)

  • http://www.project-geek.com/ SamWelker

    I love red giants after effects tutorials. They’re really high quality.

  • Funky@

    lol.. i didnt get anythin.. way too advanced for me.. wanted to hav this effect badly btu sadly i can’t get anythin out of it as u go too fast.