All language subtitles for 10. Adding Lens Flares to Muzzle Flash

hi everyone

welcome back to our 9th class

in our course on creating high tech

projectile weaponryan nuke

last class we worked on creating a plate flare

to kind of help push along the lighting effects

that were currently happening in the shot

this class we're going to um

kind of add the finishing touches to the shot

by adding some lens flares

one of the things I like about using lens flares

is that there's no one set way to use it

and it's something that you kind of just push buttons

and tweak and pull sliders

until something cool happens that you're happy with

so we're gonna bring in a flare node

right here and we'll view that

so before we view that

I'm going to get us onto the right frame

we will be adding the lens flare

so we're gonna add the lens flare right when we see

the bright light of the muzzle flash

cause this is what's gonna generate that that flare

that optical flare

so that's where we'll start it

so if you look at the flare node we see the flare

we have that

so

basically really with this

I mean you just kind of start the top

work your way down

and just kind of start pulling and pushing

sliding things until you're happy is what you have

um so let's start here

see at the size of the shot of the muzzle flash

so we have this slider here

we can kind of go up and down with um

I will for sake of viewing

plus this over our shot

so we can kind of have reference in terms of sizing

coloring opacity and such

so we will plus this

here we go alright

maybe we'll just kind of

position this kind of where we want it

so we have an idea okay

we'll just view the flare node for now

so

being that it's gonna again

be animated to the muzzle flash

it will be smaller where it starts

and larger where it ends

so right now we're just gonna go for the look

so we're not gonna animate the size and stuff

we're just gonna kind of get the look the color

the offsetting and all that figured out

before we animate size and such

so we'll leave it at this size for now

so here we have our ring colors

we have our inner color

we have our outer fall off

inner fall off

for a color shift

you have the Chroma spread

Chroma shift

and then for visibility we have our brightness

and for our shape

actually here

you can kind of choose what shape you want

we're gonna keep our circular so

so let's begin here at the top

I'm gonna reset everything back to these default values

slide this back here

so in terms of colors

which is kind of where I like to start

we'll start with our ring color

our general ring color

since we're working kind of in the blues

with our muzzle flashes and our gunblast

kind of try and keep it something sort of close to that

something towards the reds or something here

we'll kind of just

push and pull until something cool happens here

yeah we'll we'll say something something like

like that for the inner color

again it looks really weird now

but once it's all layered in and all that

it'll look a lot different than what we're seeing here

I like to generally have quite a bit of fall off

so leave that there

and for our shifts our chroma spread sorry something

I was kinda hoping to do something in the red

so maybe something like that

don't really want any shifting right now

maybe we'll do a little shift here

something like that

I mean kind of go back to our ring color

adjust that a bit

to our liking

maybe the inner colour can adjust a bit more

maybe maybe not a green

okay leave it like that for now

we'll view the flare over the plate

so this is what we have

so to me this is an all right color

but I just wanna

kind of push and pull until something bit nicer

kind of something that just sits in the plate

a bit better than this

no I like to generally work my flares

in the same color range as what I use for my tins

and the coloring of the muzzle flashes

and the blast and all that

so we were working the blues

so maybe if we stay in the purples and the reds

that is something that will compliment each other

so maybe something like that

we'll see so

we will turn this off on the frame

before the muzzle flash starts

so we'll set our key at zero

frame 43 we'll set it

little just a little bit

and this is an effect that

you need to be very light with it

anything too heavy is gonna be very distracting

so it needs to be

you just need to just barely see it

so maybe something like that

and our 44th frame here

we'll go a little more

we're gonna need to animate the size of this as well so

so we'll do now

so right here we have our size down here

where is our size

up here at the top

so we'll animate that

so we'll set a key frame

here for that and make a little smaller

and then on the next frame here

we'll increase the size a bit more

that's a little too much

okay you may even wanna lower this a little bit

on this frame

maybe some like that for now

and we'll view that

and we'll turn that off on this frame

um one thing I will like to do as well is um

just animate the position of the flare

just so we get a little bit of movement

so it's just not sitting in the same place

so we'll keyframe our position

you can probably do that

right there

so in this frame here

I'll slide it maybe down into the right a little bit

here we go something like that and that's all we need

so now let's just play

play that back and see how we're looking

see if we want to adjust anything further

not too bad

um it's a little distracting for me

so I'm going to lower the values

and adjust the position just a little bit

let's go go to this frame

this frame is feeling pretty good

this frame here is just a little distracting

so I'm gonna move the position a bit up

and we will lower the opacity a little bit

on this second frame of the muzzle flash

yes I'm like that

let's play that back now and see that's a little better

this feels good

now you don't really see it a lot

but it's there

and it's one of those things where

you may not see it now

but if you were to turn it off and view it again

you'd see something a little different

would feel in the shot and again

depending on supervisor yourself

you're the client whatever

this is something that can be animated

to be seen more or seen less

so we'll leave it like this for now

um thanks for joining us this class

um next class will be our final class

where we will kind of go back and refine

various parts of the shot a little bit more

and take it to final

so thanks for joining us

and I'll see you next week thanks