This creates multiple, modifiable, color gradients around or over the images. Multicolor Vignette provides the user with something rather unusual that a normal vignette cannot reproduce, which is the ability to apply a smooth, multicolored vignette onto the image in one go. It is a highly customizable plugin with plenty of controls to create unique effects where colorful and even animatible shades, patterns and light effects are needed. This unique plugin allows the user to overlay a great variety of color gradients of modifiable tonality, size and intensity over the images. You can then customize the effect as you wish. Effects like “Red light Alarm” or constantly shifting ambient lights, (i.e.signs) require only a couple of seconds to choose from the presets. This plugin provides you with a fast and easy way of creating automated pulsing lights of any speed, color and style.
Note: This is plugin is more advanced than the previousely released free Dual Flicker and was created from scratch with Quartz Composer and FX Factory. Suitable for recreating disco-like strobe lights too.
Coming with a generous number of customizable controls and presets, this is a plugin that can be used in a variety of projects.
If you are looking for a filter that can simulate a nice TV ambient or maybe an old projector flickering light then here is a plugin that will certainly help you with that. New Stylized Luma effect for Light Kit 2.0 New Retro Color Shader effect for Light Kit 2.0 New Color Booster effect for Light Kit 2.0
Take a look at the samples below! New Blink Effects for 2.0 These allow the user to achieve sophisticated and visually appealing effects for many type of productions including music videos, commercials, feature and short films, documentaries and indi movies.īesides the addition of twice the number of effects Light Kit 2.0 brings a completely new experience for FCPX users with an updated UI (Presets, Parameter grouping etc.). However, some other plugins like Color Bands, Retro Color Shader, Color Boost, Multicolor Gradient, Multicolor Vignette, Vivid Touch and Stylizer offer new ways of stylizing images, color and ambient light. Light Kit 2.0 includes 7 new plugins (double the number of effects offered by Light Kit 1.0) Blinks, Color Bands, Color Boost, Night-Time, Retro Color Shader, Stylized Lume and Temperature as well as the 9 original plugins (7 effects and 2 transitions) most of which reproduce a specific type of light effect such as flickering, regional, burn and flashing light.
I got a sense right away that this is a very different look so a lot of what my job was to make sure that the way that our stylized water was going to look would respond well to the wide angles on the film as well.Simulate flickering, regional, burning and flashing lightsĪ set of 16 stylish plugins offering a wide range of light and image enhancement tools are now available for Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects and Motion 5 users. we see in the characters as those were coming along. In that first six to eight months, I was just on the show as the only effects artist on the team it was really all about sort of listening very intently to what Enrico was asking for, and other elements of the production were already underway on the assets.
I mean, really, as the effects supervisor on the film, I joined about two years ago. It ultimately supports his vision for storytelling.ĭS: What popped in my brain during our discussion previously was you had to have had to take a lot of different photos from a lot of different angles to be able to recreate that simplistic look of the water where most of your story takes place, can get into that? It really feels like a shift in what we were able to provide and how the effects could visually support that elegant simplicity, that storybook stylization that he was going for. One of the things that I am most proud of is the work my team has been able to deliver on Luca. But in the end, it’s one of the things that I am most proud of. So yeah, it certainly was the biggest challenge that we had. JR: Honestly, it was a little bit of terror because essentially, Enrico (the film’s director) was taking the playbook that we had developed over all these years and are now going to throw it out the window and go for something completely different.