Note that the lightning effect does not animate by default when you scrub through your footage. I will make it come out of Jimmy’s hands and hit me in the chest. You can drag these markers (shown as little red circles) around directly in you preview window to have your lighting start and end wherever you want. This will cause the lightning to strike from the Origin to the Direction marker. Since we want the lightning to be a little bit more targeted and come out of Jimmy’s hands and shoot towards me, we first need to change the Lightning Type to ‘Strike’. You should now see a lightning strike down the middle of your composition. Alternatively, you can also drag and drop the effect onto the layer. To apply the Advanced Lightning to the newly created solid, make sure the solid layer is selected and then double click on the Advanced Lightning effect. Now go over to the Effects & Presets panel on the right hand side of the interface and search for the Advanced Lightning effect. The colour for this new solid doesn’t matter, just click OK to create it. The easiest way is to right click into your layers window and select New -> Solid.

To help him master the force, we can easily use After Effects!įirst, create a new solid. Obviously his control of the force isn’t yet strong enough so there are no actual lightnings going on. I have some footage here of Jimmy from Jimmy America pretending to electrocute me Emperor style.

Shocking! Creating Lightning In Adobe After Effects This is the final lightning effect we will be creating in this Adobe After Effects tutorial: Learn how to create the lightning hands effect when the Emperor tries to shock young Skywalker into supporting the Dark Side :) This one is for all the Star Wars fans out there!

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