Learn how to create an ENERGY BALL VFX using Adobe After Effects!

TIME STAMPS
00:00 Introduction
01:12 Tutorial Start
03:04 Creating the Core Energy Texture
05:12 Shaping the Energy Ball
06:03 Creating the Spawn Effect for the Energy Ball
11:49 Adding Additional Detail
13:37 Adding Light Rays Emitting from the Energy Ball
14:48 Adding a Lens Flare (using the FREE Ignite Express Lens Flare Effect)
17:30 Adding Flicker with a simple Expression
18:12 Adding an Energy Diffusion Layer around the Energy Ball
20:50 Adding a Rim to the Energy Ball (using the FREE Saber Plugin from Video Copilot)
26:35 Adding the Energy Ball to our Video + Colourize + Glow
29:04 The Final Effect

You can download the tutorial files here: https://www.surfacedstudio.com/tutori...

Difficulty: medium

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Unfortunately Ignite Express is no longer available. A good (but not free) alternative for amazing lens flares is Video Copilot Optical Flares: https://www.videocopilot.net/products...

Get Video Copilot Saber plugin FREE: https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/201...
Get Video Copilot Color Vibrance plugin FREE: https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/201...

And here's the link to the DISINTEGRATION tutorial: https://www.surfacedstudio.com/tutori...

In this tutorial we will be creating a cool looking energy ball effect.

We will be using lots of effects to create the pulsating energy base for the effect.
On top of everything we will add a flickering optical flare to add some intensity.
We will finish it off with a burning ring of energy using the Video Copilot Saber plugin.
Finally, we will composite everything back into our original shot of Walter throwing an energy ball into my face!

All comments and feedback welcome :)


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