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Creating Lightning: How RISE Visual Effects Brought Flash to Zeus’ Bolt
Posted on Friday, July 30, 2010 in Tutorial
Studio Daily is providing a complimentary webinar on Thursday, August 5 from 12pm to 1pm ET. VFX supervisor Florian Gellinger will deconstruct a scene from Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
Tools used are Nuke and Sapphire plugins. Nevermind a lot of AE folk don’t use Nuke, this is an opportunity to see technique which could easily be reproduced using After Effects. And if you use Sapphire plugins all the better.
Some of the tasks to be examined involve an actor interacting with a lightning bolt and include:
- show Zeus catching the CG lightning bolt
- integrate the bolt in his hand
- add chromatic aberration
- add a plasma core
- make its edges wobble
- add a lightning “back bone”
- add a huge variety of smaller and bigger, high-energy arcs on its surface
- add heat distortion
- add photographic glow and light interaction on Zeus
