From the course: Mograph Techniques: Creating a Sports Bumper
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Adding optical flares with the Video Copilot Optical Flares plugin
From the course: Mograph Techniques: Creating a Sports Bumper
Adding optical flares with the Video Copilot Optical Flares plugin
In this movie, I'm going to show you how you can add lens flares that track to our light by using the third party plug in, Video Co-Pilot Optical Flares. So, to be able to follow this movie, you need to make sure that you have Optical Flares installed. And you can buy it from videocopilot.net. So let's go ahead and create a new solid. Let's rename this backlight, because this is going to be the lens flare that we're going to put on our backlight. Let's go to video co-pilot optical flares, and that creates a lens flare, and right now. It's on black so let's just go to untransparent. So now we can see our image underneath. And let's set the blending mode to add. Now I'm going to go to the options here and go to our preset browser and I'm going to choose a different light. I'm going to use this blue spark preset, and I'm just going to solo. Just the glow parts, I don't want any more of the iris elements on this. I'm going hit OK. And right now it's on top of our capsule element and I…
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