This is a fun effect to add some flare to your motion graphics.
By animating a line along a path and making it glow, you can very quickly have a cool light streak dancing around the screen and illuminating the background.
It just goes to show that a few tools used well can do a lot.
There’s even several variations of styles shown as each tool is tweaked.
In this video from Casey Faris, you’ll learn about:
- Merging Text+ over a background
- Creating a custom shape with Polygon
- Adjusting Polygon paremeters
- Animating the shape
- Adding a glowing core
- Texture with FastNoise
- Lighting a background with the glowing shape
- Adding Stroke to Text
- Using Text+ as a Mask
- Adjusting animation
- Adding Camera Shake
- Organizing with Underlays
Gedaly is the Founder and Lead Educator of DVResolve.com and is Blackmagic Design Certified Master Trainer. He’s edited commercials for major brands and has done color & VFX for independent films. He consults on post-production workflow and creating online education. Gedaly is the co-founder of Working.Actor, a former marketing manager for large brands, and creates original film projects with his production company Razee.
Great quick tutorial.