Maya 7: Flash Of Light

[jdane]

Hello everyone,

I wanted to create an effect like that of lightning flash in my animation. How can I go about doing? Or should I just make a few frames completely white to create the illusion of lightning flash?

Please let me know what you think.

All ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Jason Dane

[joojaa]

QUOTE(Jason Dane @ 04/10/09, 03:56 AM) [snapback]305379[/snapback]
I wanted to create an effect like that of lightning flash in my animation. How can I go about doing? Or should I just make a few frames completely white to create the illusion of lightning flash?

Use your comp app or your film editor whan you make the cuts.

[jdane]

QUOTE(Joojaa @ 04/10/09, 06:38 AM) [snapback]305423[/snapback]
Use your comp app or your film editor whan you make the cuts.

so just to confirm there really is no way of doing this in Maya? Or will it be too complicated to do this for a simple effect?

The reason why I am asking is because I don't want to use any other software (as I doing a project and time is of the essence at the moment ). I was thinking of inserting a few completely white frames to create the illusion of a flash from the viewer perspective.

Thanks for the help. Much appreciated, Joojaa!

Jason Dane

[joojaa]

QUOTE(Jason Dane @ 04/12/09, 11:02 AM) [snapback]305556[/snapback]
so just to confirm there really is no way of doing this in Maya? Or will it be too complicated to do this for a simple effect?

It would be waste of resources more than anything else. So you would be saving time doing the right operations in the right place of the pipe.

And no its not hard to do just put a image plane on the near clip plane and fade in a ramp thats white and animate alpha. Just not very cost efficient in terms of flexibility.
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The reason why I am asking is because I don't want to use any other software

You can not do anything with just maya IMHO. Your going to page into a comp app/cutting anyway for the final tweaks no matter what. How hard is it to pase a edl out of your scene.

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The reason why I am asking is because I don't want to use any other software (as I doing a project and time is of the essence at the moment smile.gif ).

Well it uses up exactly the same amount of time but gives more flexibility to do it better. After all in comp this si prettymuch realtime, and you still need to page out to comp for compression and tonal fix. Anyway if time was so critical you allready spent it 10,000 over by asking.