With all of these combined, the robot should look much more convincing in the real world environment he’s supposed to inhabit. I added light wrap, reverse light wrap, volume fog, and diffusion. They’re so tiny in the shot, and I wanted them to be more dynamic.įor the robot, I added quite a few effects.

With the eyes, I just added some glow to draw them out. This doesn’t look like much here, but in the final comp, it makes the objects behind the fire distorted as if you were looking through some really intense heat. I chose a purple color and again noticed that the color wheels in Supercomp are very similar to Colorista, another Red Giant effect.įor the fire layer, I added a heat blur. It has two effects: layer glow and optical glow. In this case, we’re using all of these different elements to make this giant robot look really cool and hopefully very realistic ( Figure 9, below). Supercomp is just that: a composition tool to streamline combining multiple elements into one final shot.

It shares similarities in font, colors and general design scheme. Opening up the Supercomp panel, you’ll find it familiar if you’re used to other Red Giant plugins. Red Giant graciously provided a comp and some media to work with Supercomp. The Reflection effect Supercompįinally, let’s look at one of the biggest effects within the VFX Suite: Supercomp. There are many different parameters within this effect that allow you to tailor it to your shot.įigure 8. I superimposed this angled, distorted reflection onto the original shot and animated it across the screen ( Figure 8, below). I didn’t know the best way to use reflection within the context of this clip, so I kind of went David Lynch with it and just made something that would somewhat disturbing. The next effect that I used on this clip is Reflection.

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