From the course: VFX Techniques: Creating a Laser Battle

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Fabricating a hole in the set

Fabricating a hole in the set - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: VFX Techniques: Creating a Laser Battle

Start my 1-month free trial

Fabricating a hole in the set

- So now we have a new laser beam on our shot too. Let's play it back. There we go. In terms of the feather I wound up with, let me show you that. I did use a feather tool so if I click on the mask you can see that. So large feather on the back end, not only exterior feather points but interior feather points too. There's the first frame, next frame, next frame, until it's gone. Let's create some damage though. A nice hole where this laser has punched through. The way to do that is to select that plate layer, maybe hide the laser for a second and draw a ragged hole that represents damage. I'll do this fairly quick, you can spend more time on it. Something like it's melted through or punched through the metal, like that. Now, initially it's going to be an add of mask but I can go into the mask blending mode and change that to subtract, and there's a hole. I'll go ahead and feather that a tiny bit, say five, so it's a little bit soft in the edges. Before I move on, I think I'll go ahead…

Contents