Glowing Characters with grey background (After Effects)

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Glowing Characters with grey background (After Effects)

Postby AriqLordOfSpirits » Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:24 am


I've just watched this video...and I saw a very cool effect. The characters were glowing....here are two screenshots with one second difference. Anyone can tell me how to do/make this kind of effects
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Re: Glowing Characters with grey background (After Effects)

Postby mirkosp » Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:34 am

Looks like the trapcode shine was applied to the character. So yeah... try to do this:
1) Duplicate the layer;
2) Mask the character with the pen tool (even a rough mask should be fine);
3) Apply the trapcode shine to this layer. Those setting look like the colorize has been set to "Mars", the ray length has been reduced to perhaps 2 or so, and the source point has been moved on the top of the screen, over the character.
As for the background, it just seems like a Fractal Noise overlayed onto the image. Just overlaying it would affect the character too, though, so perhaps you might want to:
1) Duplicate the original layer;
2) Mask out what you don't want to have the noise;
3) Creating a new solid layer and applying the fractal noise effect to it;
4) Placing this layer between the mask and the original image and setting it's blending mode to overlay.
Those should do it.
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Re: Glowing Characters with grey background (After Effects)

Postby AriqLordOfSpirits » Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:16 am

thanx a tonn....it really works.... :D ...if i have any problem then I'll pm you :)
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Re: Glowing Characters with grey background (After Effects)

Postby Subtle Sorrow » Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:40 am

If you want to do this, do you have to do it frame by frame? Or does it apply to the whole clip?
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Re: Glowing Characters with grey background (After Effects)

Postby mirkosp » Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:40 am

You'll have to change the mask for every frame, but that aside, it should be fine.
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