Occasionally when I’m not being a programmer I find myself playing with various other creative tools, mostly Photoshop, After Effects, and Maya - each application is superbly suited to it’s task.
Recently I’ve been playing with After Effects and trying to pick up tips for post-production video editing when I stumbled across this site. Andrew Kramer has put together some great video tutorials on how to do various things inside After Effects, including the increasingly popular light-saber effect.
The tutorial I was particularly intested in was “Light Streaks“, thanks to the new iPod Nano advert I saw a while ago….
Pretty cool, huh? I wondered at the time if I could recreate something similar so I created a new After Effects project, but got distracted 30 seconds later - until now!
Andrew Kramer’s Light Streaks video tutorial takes you step by step through recreating this effect - just the streaks themselves mind you. I’m pretty sure that with some other skills (colour keying - aka. ‘green screening’) you could convincingly recreate some pretty neat stuff.
If you’re into video editing/post production give his site a look - be warned though, it’s easy to get sucked in for a few hours! Nice one Andy.
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