In this video, @Martin Klekner shows how to create a 3D lightning using a simple Grease Pencil workflow and how to composite it into your scenes. Learn how to make the waves in our course.
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LINKS
⇨ Free Introduction to Compositing: https://youtu.be/bIZrTXtyQkY
⇨ SlowMo Guys Lightning video by Joey Carlino: https://youtu.be/qQKhIK4pvYo
⇨ Lightning tutorial using Geometry Nodes: https://youtu.be/r_J8i1eChBs

CHAPTERS
00:00 – Intro
00:10 – Getting reference
01:54 – Drawing the lightning with Grease Pencil
05:47 – Animating the lightning
07:00 – Adding Thickness and Opacity modifier
09:13 – Rendering out layers
11:29 – Making the Lightning visible & Grease Pencil effects
12:48 – Compositing
14:40 – Driving exposure and Drivers
15:45 – Adding Glow with Ellipse mask
17:30 – Gradually blurring the Lightning

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GPU: GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
RAM: 64 GB

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