Lens flare effect

[fae_alba]

Well I'm back again. I've been coding like a mad man on my startup company and am finally on the downslope side of development. So now it is time to start turning my attention to promotion. For that I am working on a quick video meant to be a teaser of the company and product. The final scene is the logo (attached) which of course was modeled in AM. What I envisioned is the model on a black background, say 2 seconds, ending with a lens flare, or some sort of flash from the top right edge of the sun. I tried with simply lights, and couldn't get what I was looking for. Anyone have ideas on how to pull this off?

solus_logo.mdl

[fae_alba]

here's a quick render so far and the project file

demo1.prj

[robcat2075]

Hi Paul,

Good looking logo!

Put the light in the scene where you want the flare to appear, pointing to the camera. I have put it slightly in front of the logo so it won't illuminate the logo.

"Lens Flare" must be turned on in the original copy of the light in the objects folder, but the parameters can be set and animated in the Chor.

 

demo1x.prj

[fae_alba]

Robert, thanks for the tips. I knew if I came out to the forum, the A:M AI would kick in and provide a solution, When the demo reel is done I will share it here

 

[fae_alba]

works like a charm

[fae_alba]

Would there be an easy path to render this with a transparant background to be used as a gif I wonder?

 

[fae_alba]

56 minutes ago, fae_alba said:

Would there be an easy path to render this with a transparant background to be used as a gif I wonder?

 

Found the camera settings, but also found that the lens flare on a transparant background gets lost....

[robcat2075]

Does the background need to be transparent?

Can it be a patch that is background-colored?

GIF only supports all-or-nothing transparency so a partial transparency effect like the lens flare, that partially colors whatever it overlaps, is not possible in GIF.