Use Real Lights To Motivate Simulated Lights in After Effects – AE Premium
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Use Real Lights To Motivate Simulated Lights in After Effects – AE Premium

on Oct 24th 2011 with 14 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects, VCP's Optical Flares, and Stock Footage
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: Part 1-35:53, Part 2 - 32:59 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This demonstration is about shooting a translucent object, in this case a crystal illuminated by a match, and compositing that object with stock footage of dramatic fire. Finally, we’ll be simulating similar lighting effects in After Effects to reveal a logo.

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William is a motion designer, filmmaker, and author. You can follow him on Twitter. His work has appeared in feature films, shorts, television spots, and music videos. He directed the short film The House That Jack Built, an award-winning fairy tale romance. He is also the author of Fire on the Mound, a fantasy podcast novel.  

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  • Hugo

    Looks great! Seriously :)

  • http://www.creativedojo.net VinhSon

    Wow, looks like the best Premium tutorial yet! It seems like this tutorial is going to be full of tricks and techniques compared to other tutorials on here!

  • Sudhir

    May i just say, best preview…EVER.

    Thanks for sharing.

    Gets my +1 :D

  • Dan

    Looks great. I’ve gotta say though, “Fire on the mound” sounds like an STD…

  • http://www.youtube.com/ianhpiratao IANH – BR

    why so serious?

  • Jack

    Nice looking tut.

    Tip:

    Mentioning things like ‘first tut ever’ and ‘if anything goes wrong’ or any negative things related to the product or you in a promotional TEASER for a purchasable/subscription only item is a ‘no go’. Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, it actually has no place in it. just don’t do that. ;-)
    Same goes for ANY kind of presentation.

    Hope i could help

    Cheers.Jack

    • noxas

      it was a joke, you know it, we know it and from looking at the final product, i dont think anyone will care. I actually appreciate him making the preview more entertaining than just a standard preview.

  • http://www.hossam.org Hossam

    Powerful tutorial, thanks.

  • Chris

    why it doesn’t say nowher it needs extra plugins like ‘optical flares ‘colorista2′ or ‘unmult’ ? after downloading it crashes every time at main compositions :/ no comment

    • Aitor

      Yeah, right.
      What’s the unmult plugin? It’s a Red Giant one too?

  • http://www.badking.com.au BadKing

    When can I get my hands on this tutorial?

  • Daniel

    would someone fix the video it is NOT working!! I loge in but it is not working!!

    • Aitor

      Same problem too.

  • http://tandtfy.blogspot.com/ Chris Koelsch

    Looks like the best tutorial I’ve seen in a very very long time! Inspiring.