From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
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Anatomy of the lens flare - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
Anatomy of the lens flare
This little like rainbow, this very, very faint I'm going to click on the options button to get the the flare a little bit better, that I used. Typically, when I'm making flares in optical flares presets here that ere really complex, very well designed. lens objects and just get the basic components of all the flares and just start with those building blocks. with each of these, and the settings so you can really customize the presets, if that's how from scratch if you want to go that route. So the first thing I'm going to do is, I'm going to hide all of these different layers. They're not really layers I guess, They're not really layers I guess, they're all the different elements that make up they're all the different elements that make up the lens flare here. Just so we can see, piece by piece what's really going on here. And I'm going to start at the top. And I'm going to start at the top. We have this glow, this is kind of like the base We have this…
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