add HAL 9000 eye or terminator eye effect to inside of letter 0

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add HAL 9000 eye or terminator eye effect to inside of letter 0

I'm trying to figure out the best way to add an effect where the middle of the letter O would look kind of like the terminator's eye - make it glow and kind of throb with red light - and of course add the sound effect that goes with it.

Not sure if a still photo from Photoshop would workl, probably not.

Maybe I should grab a video of the eye throbbing and try to use that?

Or, is there is some kind of effect that would generate a simulated 3D red throbbing eye?

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.1), RME FireFace 400

Posted on Dec 20, 2007 2:35 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 21, 2007 12:41 PM in response to exquirentibus

Red soft edged circle with a slight wriggle on the opacity?

Patrick

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Dec 21, 2007 12:47 PM in response to Patrick Sheffield

Patrick - that was the first thing I tried.

I'm after the 3D look in the terminator's eye, and not sure if you can create that effect in motion (but, then again, I'm very new to motion).

Could probably create one in photoshop, but just changing the opacity or color saturation to simulate the throbbing would probably not look 'real' - as increasing the light level of a real eye would also change the image in other ways.

Which, is why I'd thought of grabbing a video of a real throbbing red eye.

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Dec 21, 2007 2:11 PM in response to exquirentibus

A video would be tough because you'd have to make sure that the camera angle was right. I would say get an image of an eye, put it in Shake and then use a combination of color correction and gamma adjustment to make it "flash". Then slowly add more layers to achieve a more detailed animation such as a slight glow about the retina, maybe a distortion or pattern overlayed on top of the eye, etc. That's the kind of thing that takes a lot of tweaking. It's not difficult, just time-consuming.

When I'm doing stuff like that I put them all into a MultiLayer node because it is very easy to change the blending mode (Add, Subtract, Max, Min, etc) to see what looks best.

Message was edited by: Jon Chappell

****, that's what you get when you use an RSS reader... Sorry I thought this was the Shake forum.

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Answer 4

Dec 22, 2007 1:49 AM in response to Jon Chappell

useful tip thanks. and of course all of that can be done with Motion as well.

adam

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