Media

1. Adobe After Effects
How the effects were created

2. The Green Glow
First you have to
duplicate the
layer where you
clip is
You do that by
selecting tha
layer and going
into edit and
then duplicate.
Or you can just
press ctrl and D,
which is much
quicker
Rename that
layer to glow
To tell After Effects when you want
the glow effect to start and finish
simply select the glow layer and
shorten it by dragging the ends of the
layer

3. Now select the Roto
Brush Tool at the top
and literally draw the
out line of the object
you wish to have the
effect
You can hold the alt
button to draw an
outline of the things
you don’t want
selected.
Go to Effects and
Presents, stylize and
choose the glow
effect.
Double click it to
apply it to the layer
selected

4. The layer with the effect should
look like this, the only thing
visible should be the object
selected.
In order to see the
glow properly change
the bits per channel
by clicking this
And then select the
highest bits which is
32

5. Those setting are used
to control the look of
the glow.
This controls which
parts of the objects
should glow eg, only
the darkest part or the
whole thing
This controls the sixe
of the glow
And this controls the
strength
Colour A and B
obviously control the
colour of the glow.
Colour B is the outline,
therefore I made it a
bit darker
End effect
To be honest what I could have done to
improve the glow effect I have several layer
at different times, with the first having a
low glow threshold, the second have the
largest and the third have a low threshold
again.
What this would have created was the effect
that this glow would start spreading slowly,
glow and then fade. It would make it look
more realistic than having a glob of green
suddenly appear at random.

6. Lightning Effect
This time create a new solid by right
clicking inside the layer tab and selecting
new then solid.
Again drag the layer to where you want the
effect to start and finish

7. Go to effects, click
animated presets,
then synthetics and
then then scroll down
and select horizontal
lightning
Select the solid layer
and double click on
the lightning effect to
add it
Click on the
composition tab to be
able top of the solid
on top of the movie
Then drag the effect
to where you want it
To add a second
lightning effect I
simply added another
solid layer
As I choose a section of the clip
where Thandeka’s hands are
stationary the lightning effect
didn’t have to move.
However if I did have to adjust it
I would simply alt + click the
conductivity state in the effects
settings and move the lighting
frame by frame.