BSA 227 W8 : Playing with Nooks

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The first thing we did was open Nook™, which we did by opening it from the dektop icon and not from the windows pop up mehu, otherwise it crashes

We started working in After Effects, where we dragged in the carpark ref photo, then made a new black solid, in the presets/effects area we typed in Saber:

 we dragged and dropped this effect onto the black solid - this is a free plugin you can download from video co-pilot. Obviously it was originally made for lightsaber effects, but it has a lot more uses, especially for sci- fi things.

Changing the presets changes a lot:

Works a lot like the lightning from last lesson. There are also a lot of setting we can change:

By inserting an ellipse tool and changing the core type from saber to layer masks we can make the effect take the shape, of well...a shape (in this case an ellipse). 

We key-framed the start offset to make it slowly form in the shape:

We can also make any shape or thing we want with the pen tool:

Combined two of 'em and changed the compositing settings under render settings from black to add.

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