After Effects Sweeping the Light

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Sweepinmg the Light

May be you have read many tutorials like this on web but to create this effect I used 2 wonderful plugins called Trapcode Stroke and Shine. And today we combined these two to create the sweeping of light.

Step 1: Make a new composition at 768 x 576 with the duration of eight seconds. Press Ctrl + Y to create new solid of same size as composition.

Step 2: Select the pen tool and create a shape of your choice but try to keep the shape bigger the size of the layer because when we apply the 3d stroke and bend the stroke then enough size of the stroke makes it watchable.

Step 3: Apply the Effect > Trapcode > Stroke. Click the stopwatch for Offset, Z Position, X Rotation, Y Rotation and Z Rotation to set keyframes for each at time 0:00. And choose the same settings as shown in below image

Now you need to make the changes in the settings on the regular time intervals. At 2:00

At Time 4:00 At Time 6:00

At Time 8:00

Step 4: Now apply the Effect > Trapcode > Shine and choose the following settings. Shine is a fast light effect plug-in. The effect looks very much like volumetric light, but is actually a 2D effect. There are special controls to make shimmering lights and numerous coloring modes.

Step 5: Duplicate the layer and change the color in the shine plugin, you can also make some changes in 3dstroke too for making little different. You can also apply the Glow on both the layers. That’s it, hope this is useful for someone. Don’t hesitate to email me.