How To Create Eternals' Eye Energy Beam VFX | After Effects Tutorial

In this After Effects tutorial, we are going to learn how to create Ikaris' heat vision/laser eye effects from Marvel's Eternals. We will teach you how to motion track eyes using BorisFX's Mocha Pro, build the eye energy beams from scratch using native After Effects tools, and composite ActionVFX's Icon: Anamorphic Lens Flares and Fire Lens Flares collections to enhance the FX. Follow along! https://www.actionvfx.com/blog/make-m... Subsurface Energy Tutorial:    • How To Do Subsurface Energy Glow Effects |...   Icon: Anamorphic Lens Flares - https://www.actionvfx.com/collections... Fire Lens Flares - https://www.actionvfx.com/collections... Expression used in the tutorial: x = time*-1000; y = effect("Turbulent Displace")("Offset (Turbulence)")[1]; [x, y] 00:00 intro 00:40 Tracking the eyes using MochaPro 02:50 Manual tracking using Adjust Track 04:10 Apply the tracking data to Nulls 05:30 Creating the energy beam element 07:06 Animating the turbulence using Expression 08:50 Adding more layers of strokes 09:50 Creating energy branches 12:27 Compositing the beam to the backplate 14:09 Animating the energy beam (Linear Wipe) 15:50 Adding Motion Blur 16:15 Creating white eyeball 17:55 Adding the glow FX 19:20 Compositing extra glow using Icon Lens Flare 21:20 Adding face glow 22:31 Brief overview of the Subsurface vein FX 23:07 Outro #VisualEffects #VFX #Eternals #Marvel #ActionVFX Join thousands of others by subscribing to our channel for more valuable VFX and filmmaking content! Download high-quality elements (and gain access to the entire VFX library) for a low $14.99 monthly price. Learn more: https://www.actionvfx.com/pricing Not after a Subscription? No worries! From Fire and massive Explosions to Blood and Gore VFX, we have the largest high-quality VFX library in the world ready to be composited in your project. Check out over 4,700 VFX stock footage elements right here: https://www.actionvfx.com/collections​ Looking for a VFX community? Come introduce yourself on our Forum! It's a place for VFX artists of all skills and experience to collaborate, talk VFX, get feedback on work, and so much more. Join today: https://forum.actionvfx.com/ Remember to connect with us on our social networks to stay updated on our latest news, giveaways, announcements, contests, and more! ActionVFX Socials: Facebook -   / actionvfx   Instagram -   / actionvfxofficial   Twitter -   / actionvfx   LinkedIn -   / actionvfx   MB01HXR1RH2QR5C