Use Real Lights To Motivate Simulated Lights in After Effects – AE Premium
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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Looks great! Seriously :)
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!
May i just say, best preview…EVER.
Thanks for sharing.
Gets my +1 :D
Looks great. I’ve gotta say though, “Fire on the mound” sounds like an STD…
why so serious?
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
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.
Powerful tutorial, thanks.
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
When can I get my hands on this tutorial?
would someone fix the video it is NOT working!! I loge in but it is not working!!
Looks like the best tutorial I’ve seen in a very very long time! Inspiring.