Glow around the Body

Aloha everyone,

Does anyone know how to do a glow effect around a person...something like the effect done in "The Last Dragon"

first order of business is to cut a matte around them - manually or with edge detection software...
there IS NO easy way to achive this. unless they were shot on green/blue screen

you could just fake it with an oval matte. it wont hug their contour, but the overall effect will get the message across...

Throw the actor into a nuclear reactor for 5 min. But then shoot quickly...they won't last long.


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Hire the right sort of actor- some just have a glow about them naturally.

But seriously- yeah the easiest way would be to shoot them in front of greenscreen. Then you can easily create the glow with a filter and then key them over the background of your choice. Otherwise you would need to essentially cut them out of every frame which is very tedious.

Noah

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hash brownies

ive been around the block SEVERAL times. and ive yet to see anything GLOW from hash brownies.

Well this should be an interesting tangent...

ak
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I would do this is After Effects requiring rotoscoping and Trapcode's Shine.

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