Light Beams SFX Video (Like IPod Nano Commercial)

[eliarab]

great video...any tips on how to do that ?? ....10x anyway and good luck

[soul2310]

i really like it. keep it up ^^

to bad i have no clue to do such stuff ...

[auob2008]

good lihgt .....

[eramiaka]

please song name ? :)

[Janook]

Cowgirl by Underworld

[ZacharyCort]

so i have adobe aftr effects and i hav no idea how 2 do this but i sooo want 2! any help? did u use a tutorial? thnks!

[jaysatanfox]

You should have done something more than wiggle(x,x) tbh

[OldBlueJeansXo]

That is AMASING! Very very very good! Is there any way you could do it with multiple colours instead of just green (like it switches colours from green to blue ect.)

[Janook]

Yes, that's completely doable. I'm considering making another similar video, where the light beams change colors with the beat.

[OldBlueJeansXo]

That would be sooo cool! I cant wait to see it!

[tammiedenski]

I just did this tutorial too and had the same problems. He updates the fixes in another lesson substituting using the light emitter to point and whipping it to a null object to get better use of it. Still you need to render it at 90 fps, then you can bring it in to another comp at what ever speed you want.

[tadhg2]

WELL DONE !!!

did you make it in motion?

[Janook]

No, I made it in Adobe After Effects.

[tadhg2]

NICEEEE !

i gotta get my hands on AFTER FX ... do they do a mac version ?

[Janook]

I think they do, but I'm not sure. I use a PC.

[cradleofcorpses]

all adobe releases have mac versions...

[brandiceMofucka]

whats the music for this?

[Janook]

Cowgirl by Underworld.

[FireClash]

Thats pretty sick how ya made the glow pulse with the beat nice one brother... Nice One!!

[Navthwarrior]

this done with a particle generator in after effects right??

[Janook]

Yes.

[Aroldo2k6]

Andre kramer Rulllz! :D

[Janook]

fo sho :-)

[phededk]

im just asking you?

[Janook]

Well, better is relative. :-)

It's just a little different, what with the beat having an effect on the lighting and glow.

[phededk]

why is this better than the nano ad?

[sTallinGarD]

amazing.. could u post a video tutorial to make this SFX ... are doing this with blue screen?

[Kallsito]

cool....werd mich auch mal an sowas versuchen

[Janook]

Translation to english:

"cool, I'll try something like that sometime."

Heh, good luck, it's fun to make.

"Glück, es machte Spaß, um zu machen."

[aryelnurkar]

The music is also cool where can I find it???

[Janook]

That song is Cowgirl by Underworld. I have it off the Hacker's Original Soundtrack.

[aryelnurkar]

Thanks for the quick reply.I am also trying to do the similer animation in 3Ds max.

Have you posted any tutorial for a clip like this?

Thanks again

[pot3llo]

what program did you use for this?

[Janook]

I made this with Adobe After Effects

[cyeh3]

it looks good, but 45 seconds of the same thing is kinda boring. The pulsating is kool, but u need to switch it up more. W/ the iPod ad, they switch colors and people. Also, the music wasn't that great. Maybe if the speed of the video was faster and a more faster-paced song.

[Abebil]

wow! it's very very beautiful,and mayb it can be used a visualization in iTunes or Windows Media Player!

I have a question,why is it that the "head" of the swirl is always in the center of the screen? Can it be altered? Im not a SFX pro so excuse me for this. Tasty video anyway!^^

[Janook]

Thanks! And it could absolutetly be used as a visualizer, but I don't know how to set that up. But it's doable, yes.

I set it up so the Cameras Point-Of-Focus was always equal to the position of the swirl. It's very easy to change that. In the interested of keeping all the animation automatic (so I don't have to actually define any of the paths of the camera or swirl), I could easily set the camera's point-of-focus to vary around the position of the swirly.

[Abebil]

Oh... great,Thanks for the information. :)

[utubjf]

Pretty cool, nice job!

[Janook]

Thanks!