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Making a glint

Making a glint - After Effects Tutorial

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Making a glint

You've added a custom glow to all of these windows. You can add something similar in the form of a glint. A glint is a more specific highlight or hot spot. It might be a reflection off of a piece of glass. So,for example, we can add a glint on the window to the left. We use a hot spot that forms up here. Now, there's a great effect that can create that look and that's called CC light rays. So with this lower layer selected, I'll go up to Effect > Generate > CC Light Rays. It works by making the point underneath this center handle glow. It's actually a copy of that same layer, it's been distorted and softened, and made more intense. So right away I can increase the intensity to make it more visible. I'll raise that to 300. You see it become brighter. Now, so it doesn't spread out too far, I'll reduce the radius to 15. Now in terms of the softness or hardness of the pattern that forms with that glint, I can adjust the warp softness. If I just interactively drag it, you can see different…

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