Zergish (Lightning plug-in test)

Re-uploaded in an attempt to rectify the crappy quality.

As you might have guessed, I played around with the Advanced Lightning plug-in in After Effects and came up with something completely different then what I had started out with.

Used various tint and glow filters then a vector blur to make it all, well, gooey.

Enjoy this Starcraft inspired short!

(The tentacle featured in this video is actually a very famous Japanese hentai actor.)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• adobe
• after
• effects
• advanced
• lightning
• zerg
• starcraft
• ZOMGTENTACTLES!

[GoWxGaiA]

how exactly did you generate this? did you add a bunch of flares to it or what?

[Nitrammn]

@GoWxGaiA As I said in the description, I used the advanced aightning effect, added some glow and colour to it then I placed the vector blur effect on top of it. it's a surprisingly simple effect to do :)

[Pirate92a]

@Nitrammn Right, right. Well, thanks! I'll keep experimenting. I even have a few others methods now that I discovered how to make an effect react to sound. [Without the "Form" plugin]

[Nitrammn]

@Pirate92a You'll want to use very slow conductivity state changes, but even then I guess it'll be hard to control it due to the nature of the effect. After all, it's supposed to replicate lightning : /

[Pirate92a]

@Pirate92a The problem is my lightning stands keep jumping around too wildly.

[Pirate92a]

@Pirate92a Well, tried and failed... You wouldn't be able to make a tutorial by chance would you?

[Pirate92a]

Awesome! I have been looking into various "infected" germ cell effects and this is brilliant! I am going to try now,

[LNoMz]

cool :D