Fairytale Lighting in After Effects

In this quick tutorial you’ll learn how to take video and turn into something straight out of a fairytale. You’ll learn how to set up a down-and-dirty 3D track, add volumetric light and dust to a live action shot, and then finish it with some simulated camera lens blur.

Tags:

13 Responses to Fairytale Lighting in After Effects

  1. AdamV says:

    Another awesome tutorial, Thank you again!!

  2. Haxn says:

    another demonstration of excellence…
    great, quick tip and sparks lots of creative ideas
    thanks for sharing :-)

  3. Ladozs Kadullu says:

    Hi Harry,
    as always some very nice tips to learn from. Often the simple stuff turns out to be very precious
    (Grid layer & Blur map)!
    Thanks again for sharing your knowledge!
    LK
    btw. the Footage is awesome

  4. AM says:

    This tut would have been way more effective with sample files.

    • Harry says:

      Personally, I consider it a generic concept: creating a generic track from left/right footage to allow for camera motion that will provide for movement in Particular and Shine. The specific footage doesn’t matter. So, I don’t consider this a tutorial to mimic verbatim. If that’s what you want to do, then I think the point is a bit lost.

      However, if you want the exact footage that I used, you can get it right here:

      http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=12812119

  5. Alexandros says:

    OMG!! Soooo nice effects!! I LOVE graymachine

  6. jay lee says:

    hey,what a exciting tutorials,

  7. Eric says:

    Looks great. Thank you for the excellent tutorial.

  8. Little Cloud says:

    You my friend are simply amazing. I watched the crowd tutorial on red giants tv and I was just blown away with the application you showed. Its people like you sir that make my world go around! THANKYOU A BUNCH for your insights and discyplined way of explaining things.

  9. jesher jed arquisola says:

    well the tutorial was nice but i wish i can download it.

    • graymachine says:

      This is Red Giant’s policy, not mine. I try to enable the download option for anything that I do outside of Red Giant.

  10. Pingback: What can Adobe After Effects do?

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>